Los Angeles-area fire victim Chef Daniel Shemtob is soothing his soul by dishing out foil-wrapped breakfast burritos and tacos to first responders and fellow evacuees.
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World Central Kitchen Chef Corp member Daniel Shemtob talks with an Eaton Fire first responder as he serves burritos from his food truck, The Lime Truck, at the Rose Bowl Stadium, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Pasadena, Calif. World Central Kitchen Chef Corp member Daniel Shemtob, left, serves Eaton Fire first responders from his food truck, The Lime Truck, at the Rose Bowl Stadium, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Pasadena, Calif.
World Central Kitchen Chef Corp member Daniel Shemtob pauses as he walks through what remains of his home destroyed by the Palisades Fire, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Calif. World Central Kitchen Chef Corp member Daniel Shemtob pauses as he walks through what remains of his home destroyed by the Palisades Fire, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Calif.
World Central Kitchen Chef Corp member Daniel Shemtob, right, and his team prepare burritos in his food truck, The Lime Truck, for Eaton Fire first responders at the Rose Bowl Stadium, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Pasadena, Calif. Shemtob never dreamed the Palisades Fire would reach his neighborhood. When he evacuated around noon on Jan. 7, he took only a laptop, to be able to work, and homemade meatballs and pasta, because he was hungry.
Shemtob estimated that they handed out 750 meals that night alone, along with 200 pairs of shoes from the nonslip shoe company he owns, Snibbs.The voracious Palisades Fire consumed clothes that Shemtob designed himself, kitchen tools he collected and culinary awards he won. Half his late mother’s photographs and other belongings, stored in his basement, were also destroyed; the other half went up in flames at his brother’s home nearby, which also burned.
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