"I feel sad and frustrated and lost," Martinez, 54, said in Spanish at a Pasadena community job center Tuesday. "We worked and worked for years to finally achieve some sort of stability. Now, we have nothing."
Many have clients whose homes are destroyed or inaccessible, meaning a sudden and dramatic loss of income. Some are too traumatized to work. Many have also lost their homes.
On the rolls of victims of the region's devastating fires, alongside wealthy and well-connected residents, are thousands of service workers like Martinez and Moreno whose jobs in landscaping, cleaning and contracting vanished in last week's fires.
Some said they were considering a return to their birth countries. Undocumented workers worried they would be blocked from fire aid and forced to return home, with President-elect Donald Trump taking office next week and vowing mass deportations.
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