Local leaders have set up shop in Desert Hot Springs to support the needs of mobile home fire victims

The Riverside County Emergency Management Department is working with the City of Desert Hot Springs at a resource assistance center at Desert Hot Springs High School.

The center opened Friday, July 28, for families impacted in last week's fire at a mobile home park in Desert Hot Springs. The center is expected to be open Friday through Sunday starting at 9 a.m.

The Shelter will close Monday.

"I was completely devastated," fire victim and resident of the Country Squire Mobile Home Park Julieta Perez. "I'm a single mother of two kids. And I had just recently moved into the mobile home park."

Julieta Perez is one of many families who were forced out of their homes— after a fire at the County Squire RV and mobile home park in desert hot springs.

She is now sleeping at a shelter with her two children.

"I went to desert hot springs high school, you know, and never in a million years did I think I'd be sleeping at the gym that I went to high school," says Perez.

Riverside county emergency management department opened a resource center and shelter at the high school.

"They can have access to the Department of public social services," says the Emergency Management Department Coordinator, Marilyn Casteneda. "We have the county clerk here. We also have the tax board, California Insurance. Cal OES is here, the American Red Cross, WIC, DMV, and the Office of Employment."

Perez is left trying to pick up the pieces of what she lost.

"I lost, I lost completely everything," says Perez. "I have nothing. I went back to the site the following day, and just looking at everything that I had worked so hard to get just incomplete ashes is hard. It's hard to accept."

If you would like to donate to the Perez family, she has a Go Fund Me Link.

She says her children are happy to be able to play with other children.

The red cross provided them with video games, books, and board games while they stay in the shelter.

But Perez says she worries about what’s next.

"The City has gotten together, trying to see if we can find housing," says Perez. "But as far as I know, right now, I don't have anywhere to live right now. I don't have anything that is concrete. That is for sure that I can go and sleep."

The center's goal is to provide services to all County Squire RV and Mobile Home Park residents. Between 45 and 50 residents lived in homes that were destroyed.

Other families at the shelter provided Go Fund Me Link as well. https://www.gofundme.com/f/se-agradece-la-ayuda-que-nos-brinden-incendio?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

https://www.gofundme.com/f/jeb49w-lo-que-gusten-ayudar?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer