Ashlee Smith started her nonprofit organization, Ashlee’s Toy Closet, when she was 8 years old, after she lost her house to the Angora Fire in 2007. Now, at age 22, she’s still giving out toys, this time to children affected by the Caldor Fire in the town of Grizzly Flats, California. Smith participated in a relief effort for fire victims on Sept. 26. “That big pink truck out there was full of toys. So, we estimate between 10 to 15 thousand toys, and it was all for them,” Smith told NTD News regarding the event. Her organization has been covering every West Coast fire. “We do donate toys to kids to single house fires, Christmas, birthdays. We kind of do it all, so I kind of have a stockpile of toys, I like to call it,” Smith said. In the future, she hopes to have an East Coast chapter of Ashlee’s …
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