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Santa Barbara nonprofit distributes home air purifiers to those impacted by Eaton wildfire

ShelterBox
Air purifiers being distributed by ShelterBox to people impacted by the Eaton Fire.

The nonprofit group ShelterBox distributed nearly a thousand air purifiers over the weekend in Altadena.

A Santa Barbara-based nonprofit group helped people impacted by Southern California’s massive Eaton Fire by handing out nearly a thousand home air purifiers over the weekend.

ShelterBox staff members and volunteers gave out the compact filters, which were donated by the company Intellipure. The nonprofit worked with a local Rotary Club on the project.

Intellipure donated the filters and paid to ship them to the area.

ShelterBox is a locally based relief agency that distributes tents, solar lights, and other home essentials to people impacted by disasters or conflicts around the world.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.