It’s been more than a month since the big wildfire destroyed dozens of homes in North Myrtle Beach. The fire is out but the outpouring of community help is still there.
That’s why sixteen-year-old Daniella Ohayon along with her dad flew four hours from Florida on their Cessna 182 to deliver over 30 bags of clothes that she collected through a clothing drive at her high school.
"I was watching TV and I saw the news about the stories about how the fires happened and 70 homes damaged and a hundred more you know and somebody had to do something, so I figured why not collect something that could be used,” said Ohayon.
Ohayon said that she has a deep and special connection to the community of North Myrtle Beach since that was her birthplace and said that she could could not just sit back and watch families loose not only their homes but even their clothes and other necessary items.
“I moved and left everything behind and so I haven't been here in forever so I decided that I need to help these people and put my own two cents in," said Ohayon.
Ohyan said that the clothing drive started at her high school and then spread to her home where people from her neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale were dropping off bags full of shoes and clothes.
“You know it wasn’t even anything that they could prevent, because it kind of sort of just happened at the spur of the moment and with something like that you can’t really help it, and it’s hard to get up on your own two feet again,” explained Ohayon.
The Ohayons unloaded all 30 bags into a waiting van from Grand Strand Airport and took it to the North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce.
"Everybody thinks about it but not everybody does it and here's a good example of somebody who thought about it and did it,” said chamber CEO, Marc Jordan.
"I could not be anymore of a proud parent than I am with what she has been doing for this community here in Myrtle Beach," said her father, Simon Ohayon.
The chamber will take all of the donated items to North Strand Helping Hand where that group will then deliver them to the fire victims.
"Hopefully when other people see things like this happen anywhere whether it's in your hometown or whether it's in other cities that you've never been to before anything could help whether you know it or not," said Ohayon.
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