and for chris posadas it is personal. he is one of the comedians on stage and his family lost everything in the fire. >> the good news is everyone is okay. but their house is gone. >> reporter: there were a lot of laughs , at alameda comedy works , friday night. two of chris posadas ' relatives lost their homes. >> they did lose both of their homes. >> reporter: the focus has been on finding a place to stay. >> for the most part, everything is pretty much gone. all of the baby stuff that my cousin and his wife had is kind of, you know, just in the rubble. they tried to go up to their house to see, but everything is gone. >> they went there as their last stop. it is like being at another meeting, this is great. >> reporter: a portion of the tickets will go to the victims in hawaii. this was the best way to help, being thousands of miles away from the fires. >> one of my family members had the fires hurt them directly. it was a no-brainer. >> reporter: after seeing the pictures of the devastation, there will be a lot of wor

for chris posadas, this is personal. he's one of the comedians on stage and his family lost everything in the fire. >> hey, everybody is okay. they did lose their houses, though, and those houses were terrible anyway. so they're about to get new ones. >> reporter: there were a lot of laughs at faction brewing in alameda friday night. it helped chris posadas take his mind off the devastation in maui. two of his relatives lost their homes in the fire. >> they're safe, but they did lose both of the homes . >> reporter: his cousin was supposed to welcome their first baby on the day the fire started. instead the due date passed and the focus now is on finding a place to stay. >> everything's pretty much gone and all the baby stuff that my cousin and his wife had is kind of, you know, just in the rubble. they tried to go up to their house to see, but everything's flat. >> kids from those islands, they get to go there as their last stop before they go to juvi. that was that kind of school. i was like oh, it's like being in oakl