Jan 10, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – A San Francisco business owner is offering free clothes to victims with local ties who lost everything in the Eaton Fire. The owner is helping out while still recovering from a recent burglary. Before Michelle Slater drove down to Southern California to reconnect with her older sister, Gina Ross, on Friday, she stopped by Kristin Klein’s surplus storage container on Treasure Island. Klein owns the vintage clothing store Vacation SF in the city’s North Beach neighborhood. She is offering free clothes to Eaton Fire victims like Ross, whose house in Altadena burned to the ground on Tuesday. Fire crews gain limited containment on Palisades Fire; homes still threatened “I thought it would be cool to offer to friends of friends and people that follow the store, someone to be able to come in and pick out things they would normally wear,” Klein said.  Slater says her sister operated her business out of her home and will have to start that over too. Slater’s colleagues at the Solano County Public Defender’s Office are covering her cases while she tends to her family. “Everything’s gone,” Slater said. “All of her stuff, obviously. And, her partner who passed away a few years ago, his last belongings were in there. It’s just all gone.” Klein is responding to inquiries made through social media. She says she cannot help everyone, and her selection of vintage clothing may not fit everyone’s taste, but she has managed through her own house fire in the past and has pushed through five burglaries at her store in six years. The most recent burglary happened last month. She says it is important to help others in need. “There’s GoFundMes and there’s support for people, but all of that helps you rebuild, but there is a very heavy weight of realizing that everything that you own and all of your memories and everything is gone,” Slater said. 
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