Jordan's Heber can't get people back into their homes, so he does the next best thing.

A Los Angeles woman is painting free watercolors of their homes destroyed in recent fires, and she's not alone.

“It's immortalizing something they've lost,” Heber said As it happens host nil kӧksal. “You can't give it back to them. But it does, trying.”

Fires in the past month killed more than two dozen people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures, According to Cal Fire.

“It brought a flash of light

When first? Posted about his idea on Tiktok, He thought he would create lawsuits within his own social circle.

“And then it just took off. It went viral, and I was amazed,” she said.

Heber, who works full-time as a brand strategist, says he's been inundated with requests, some who have lost their homes, others who want to get jacks for their friends and family.

He said as of Wednesday he had completed three watercolors so far and was working on about 25 others, prioritizing those of people directly affected by the fires.

But the first thing he did was not home at all.

“They came and said, 'You know, I'm a teacher here and we lost the school, and these kids don't have anywhere, and I wanted to hear Help,'” he said.

He says the teacher was very grateful for the drawing.

“He said he was brought to tears, mostly and he was so happy, and it brought a flash of light.

Every picture tells a story

Heber says he was inspired into action From another Instagram artist Who offered to draw sketches of people's houses for free?

Like Heber, Asher Bingham says he only expects his position to reach out to friends and friends of friends.

“I was like, if I do 10 houses, if I do 20 houses, that would be such a gift,” Bingham said.

Two weeks later, he received more than 1,000 claims and counting.

“It's a mixed bag of emotions. It's sad,” he said. the example about the loss of the house”.

He says that one person told him about how his father ran away from his house so quickly, the only thing he made it Shoes on feet came out.

One wrote about giving birth in a hospital while her house burned to the ground.

“Really, really heart wrenching stories,” Bingham said.

But his youngest sketch, he says, was the first he drew of a friend who was getting married in Las Vegas when the fires broke out.

Bingham managed to save the wife's cats from burning the house during the time.

“I woke up the next morning to a text. You know he sent a picture of the devastation and there's nothing left,” Bingham said.

“And I didn't know what to say … You lost your first house. There are no words for that. And so I was like, I can pull home.

A sketch artist assembles a team

As the claims piled up, Bingham quickly realized that if he wanted to do it all, he needed help. So he called on social media.

Now he has his own field to help organize applications when they come in. A local print shop prints them, free of charge. Another person donates the shipping costs.

“The people who have come out of the woodwork to help us. It's just extraordinary,” he said.

He also saw people doing similar things, like an artist painting portraits of dead pets in flames, or someone who offered to recreate scratchers.

“In Los Angeles, we don't hear happy messages all the time. We always hear about politics and crying and things being broken and stolen, and you know how horrible people are in those neighborhoods,” Bingham told A Series.

“There are really good people here and they are walking, which is very sweet.”

Heber says he can close his eyes and picture a future where someone moves into their home and hangs one of his old watercolors.

“We take instant gratification these days.

“And the fact that I get to bring someone's new home one day is very special. And I'm very grateful to have the opportunity to do that.”