South Florida may be 3,000 miles away from those in need, but advocates said they'd be grateful for the donations.

Matias Ortiz, a Miami native, told CBS News Miami's Anna McAllister he lost everything as his home burned to the ground in the Los Angeles area.

The importance of year-round fire preparedness and of having a robust infrastructure to combat potential blazes is being emphasized.

Joe “Da Barber” Alfano of Jupiter's Barbers Edge was invited to Los Angeles to provide firefighters haircuts during the ongoing wildfires in Southern California. He will be joined by John Rourke, who will help distribute goods to the first responders.

The largest of the blazes, the Palisades Fire, is more than 37 square miles. That’s more than half the land size of Washington, D.C. A second fire, the Eaton Fire, is now more than 22 square miles. The Palisades Fire threatens thousands of structures inside the fire’s perimeter.

CBS News Miami's Trish Christakis spoke with Nico Feula, who lives in Sylmar, one of the several areas impacted by the wildfires in Southern California.

Fires tearing through the Los Angeles area have killed at least 24 people, displaced thousands of others and destroyed more than 12,000 structures.

The cost of insuring against catastrophe for a large part of the market has already been locked down for a year, so the immediate impact is a way off.

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