• The Red Cross - Will continue to handle Case Management and advocate for tenants' housing needs, provide immediate items (like toiletries) until families are relocated.  
• Memorial Assistance Ministries (MAM) - Will provide rent assistance, furniture, household goods, vouchers for school clothing, and vouchers for work clothing.  MAM staff and volunteers will be making home visits to see exactly what families need.
• St. Christopher's Thrift Store - Will allow survivor families to select from clothing donated specifically for fire survivors.
• SB Presbyterian Church - Will provide school shoes for children directly to the Edgewood Elementary CIS workers.
• Fairhaven Food Pantry - Providing food for these families.
• John Knox Presbyterian - Conducting a food drive and will provide school supplies.
• Spring Shadows neighborhood and the New Covenant Presbytery - Will get shoes for the children.

The Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) recommends residents begin taking precautions against high temperatures to avoid heat-related illnesses. High body temperatures can lead to damage to the brain or other vital organs and even death.

HDHHS recommends that residents check on elderly relatives, friends and neighbors for signs of heat exhaustion or heat stroke during the approaching hot summer months. Seniors are a population especially vulnerable to high temperatures. It takes them nearly twice the time of younger people to return to core body temperature after exposure to extreme temperatures. Others who are particularly vulnerable include infants and children up to four years of age, those who are overweight, and people with heart and respiratory problems.

Heat exhaustion, usually associated with heavy activity, is the body's response to an excessive loss of water and salt contained in sweat. Signs include profuse sweating, paleness, muscle cramps, weakness, dizziness, headache, nausea or vomiting, a weak-but-rapid pulse and fainting. 

To avoid heat-related illness:

• Increase water consumption. Drink lots of liquids even before getting thirsty, but avoid those.   with caffeine, alcohol or large amounts of sugar because these can actually result in the loss of body fluid.
• Conduct outdoor work or exercise in the early morning or evening when it is cooler. Outdoor workers should drink plenty of water or electrolyte-replacement beverages and take frequent breaks in the shade or in an air-conditioned facility. 
• Wear light-colored, loose fitting clothing that permits the evaporation of perspiration.
• Do not leave children, senior citizens or pets unattended in a vehicle.
• A wide-brimmed hat helps prevent sunburn as well as heat-related illness. Sunscreen also protects from the sun's harmful rays and reduces the risk of sunburn.
• If the house is not air-conditioned, seek accommodations in air-conditioned facilities during the heat of the day: malls, movie theaters, libraries, multi-service centers, etc.
• Take frequent cool baths or showers if your house is not air-conditioned.
• Stay alert to heat advisories.