for oakland city councilman carol fyfe the neighborhood is more like a family heirloom. >> my cousins. i have several family members that live in the area. when i was 20 years old i moved to california and that's the first place that i lived. >> reporter: fyfe lived there briefly. but her ties to the neighborhood go back over six decades. once the center for get-togethers, now lost forever. >> my uncle, i'm trying to find housing for him. i have several family members that are currently homeless. it's a lot of pain. >> reporter: she joins the nearly 45,000 residents displaced in the wake of the fire. the fire scorched 13,000 acres and about 12,000 structures including homes, churches and businesses. -- as time is of the essence to get aid to altadena. >> this is middle-class. black folks, in a lot of instances, that are being overlooked because folks think this is something that just affected the rich and celebrities. >>'s organization is buying essentials like diaper, water and dog to -- dog food. >> the situation is so difficult that we will all figured out as we move forward. >> re