American film star Matthew McConaughey has rolled up his sleeves to help provide 800 hot meals to first responders at fire stations across Los Angeles.
Over the past two weeks, fires have ravaged nearly 100,000 acres in the sprawling western state, with crews working around the clock to contain approximately 70 per cent of the fire threat.
"We're giving them meals they can eat right now, also meals they can put in the freezer and eat as they come back home in the days to come," Mr McConaughey said in a video posted by Operation BBQ Relief.
"Familes that are displaced from some of these fires ... getting food to them as well. Putting some food in some bellies that are going to need it."
Mr McConaughey's efforts have been made in partnership with a liquor brand of which he is the creative director, whereby a $50,000 donation was made to the food relief effort.
Professional wrestler and fellow actor John Cena is also among the high profile names contributing to the recovery.
The former WWE champion has made a $500,000 donation to the California Fire Find and Los Angeles Fire Foundation to assist first responders.
The celebrity support comes as US President Donald Trump once again threatened to withhold federal aid from California after its Democratic governor criticised his environmental policies.
Taking a line of attack he first used last year when fires killed 86 people in northern California, Mr Trump blamed Governor Gavin Newsom, saying he had done "a terrible job of forest management."
