Atlanta chef hosts fundraiser to help rebuild restaurant destroyed by LA wildfire

Chef Deborah VanTrece searched for Black-owned restaurants impacted by the LA wildfires and found The Little Red Hen Coffee Shop. Now, she's hosting an MLK Day Brunch to help the shop owners rebuild. (Tiffany Griffith/WABE, The Little Red Hen Coffee Shop)

For more than a week, there’s been an international effort to extinguish the multiple deadly wildfires in the Los Angeles area. Among the structures consumed by the flames are businesses and homes in the historically diverse community of Altadena, California.

Now, there’s a local effort to help one of those businesses rebuild. The Little Red Hen Coffee Shop is owned by a family with Georgia roots. After 55 years of business, it was destroyed by the Eaton Fire.

In Atlanta, Twisted Soul Cookhouse & Pours is hosting an MLK Day Brunch to raise money for The Little Red Hen Coffee Shop. On Thursday’s edition of “Closer Look,” show host Rose Scott speaks to Chef Deborah VanTrece about the fundraiser.