LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Steve Carell is sending Southern California highschool college students affected by the devasting wildfires in Los Angeles to the promenade without spending a dime.
The “Office” 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.
“If you have already paid for your prom tickets, they will reimburse you for your prom tickets. It’s a pretty good deal,” Carell mentioned.
The Los Angeles space fires destroyed greater than 16,000 houses, companies and different buildings and killed not less than 29 individuals within the Pacific Palisades neighborhood and Altadena space north of Pasadena. It additionally scorched faculty campuses, upending the lives of hundreds of scholars and oldsters who had been left scrambling on the lookout for lecture 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 usually vary from $100 to $150 every.
“Going to prom should be a celebration, and we wanted to help make the big night just a little easier for seniors whose lives have been turned upside down by the wildfires,” Ron Fitzsimmons, government director of Alice’s Youngsters, mentioned in a press release. “Hopefully this allows the students to unwind and have some fun after a devasting year.”
An Instagram video posted by John Muir Excessive Faculty, one of many recipient faculties, present college students clapping and cheering as they had been stunned with Carell’s announcement throughout a college meeting.
One other recipient consists of Aveson Constitution Faculty, whose campus for kindergarten via fifth grade college students burned down within the fires and constructing for sixth via twelfth graders is broken and unusable.
Carell additionally participated within the star-studded “Skate for LA Strong” hockey event final week to lift cash for hearth reduction.
In closing, the actor mentioned: “Have fun, enjoy the prom. And remember, this is Steve Carell.”
