A Cranston man who moved to California at the beginning of this year is experiencing the wildfires first hand. The safari he works at was destroyed and he's now doing what he can to help his new community recover.
Will Demers says seeing the wildfires in real life is nothing like what we see on TV. A lot of his friends and coworkers have lost everything so he started raising money and buying supplies. He's even gotten help from Rhode Islanders.
As the Woolsey Fire rages on in California, a Rhode Island native has a front row seat to the devastation. "Flames reaching 50 feet in the air and spreading at outrageous rates, going over 80,000 acres. It’s so scary and so surreal to watch,” says Demers. He grew up in Cranston and moved out to California in January. He works as a tour guide at a popular wine safari in Malibu. Parts of the ranch there were torched in the fires.