LOS ANGELES — Actor Steve Carell is sending Southern California highschool college students affected by the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles to the promenade totally free.
The “Workplace” actor and comic mentioned Tuesday in an Instagram video that he was working with the Alice’s Youngsters charity to pay for promenade for seniors at six excessive faculties in Pasadena.
“You probably have already paid on your promenade tickets, they may reimburse you on your promenade tickets. It’s a reasonably whole lot,” Carell mentioned.
The Los Angeles space fires destroyed greater than 16,000 properties, companies and different buildings and killed a minimum of 29 individuals within the Pacific Palisades neighborhood and Altadena space north of Pasadena. It additionally scorched school campuses, upending the lives of hundreds of scholars and oldsters who were left scrambling on the lookout for school rooms for his or her youngsters to go to.
Alice’s Youngsters will donate about $175,000 for greater than 800 college students to attend the annual right-of-passage dance for graduating college students. Tickets sometimes vary from $100 to $150 every.
“Going to promenade ought to be a celebration, and we needed to assist make the massive night time just a bit simpler for seniors whose lives have been turned the other way up by the wildfires,” Ron Fitzsimmons, govt director of Alice’s Youngsters, mentioned in an announcement. “Hopefully this enables the scholars to unwind and have some enjoyable after a devasting yr.”
An Instagram video posted by John Muir Excessive College, one of many recipient faculties, present college students clapping and cheering as they have been stunned with Carell’s announcement throughout a faculty meeting.
One other recipient consists of Aveson Constitution College, whose campus for kindergarten by way of fifth grade college students burned down within the fires and constructing for sixth by way of twelfth graders is broken and unusable.
Carell additionally participated within the star-studded “Skate for LA Robust” hockey tournament final week to lift cash for hearth reduction.
In closing, the actor mentioned: “Have enjoyable, benefit from the promenade. And bear in mind, that is Steve Carell.”
