continuing to get worse. A man on a mission with nothing to gain led by his heart is Human waste. This is David Matthews Day. Every day. We spend the first six hours of our day going through reporting the illegal dumping today, though, the community advocates started before the sun rose with 1/6 homeless RV fire in 30 Hours are fire station now has spring water to many of the fires that they go to because they cannot access the fire hydrants because the RVs are blocking the fire hydrants. Lined along the streets for miles are more than 500 homeless RVs. This is l a but looks more like a third world country. A small part of the area is harbor Gateway, unknown to most that shares zip codes with Gardena and Torrane . The large majority of these RVs are parked in unincorporated county bleeding into East Gardena, West, Rancho Dominguez , Compton and Willowbrook. Everything kind of overlaps itself. So this is the perfect spot to have the Wild West. Trashed out, broken down homeless RVs, blocking sidewalks and lanes of traffic infested with filth, drugs, weapons and crime. It's crazy around here from Broadway to 140th to Redondo Beach Boulevard, derelict boats, surfboards and trailers where puppies roam free parking is free and rules don't apply to individuals that charge 50 or $75 to take the septic out to take the waste out of the subject takes in the RVs, and then they're disposing of that waste. Into the storm drains homeless fires here are accidents, others payback like this one captured on surveillance. The burned out RVs just become part of the roadside decor. This 135th burned down four months ago. It's still here. In front of it exposed electrical wires run along the sidewalk where the homeless steel power by hard wiring their RVs into this traffic light across the street, the song family like the other 12,000, who work around here, tries to run business as usual at the Garden Center. We're trying to see if we can help them out and stuff like that, but It's just been really tough to Ah. Work around them. Campers have budget pictures of cartoons and stuff. It's very smelly and Which me sad that they absolutely they're just as we're leaving the garden center right in front of our camera. This homeless man falls to the concrete and his mouth fills with blood. He hit his head on the brick wall when he tripped, running with a drink. We called 911 and tried to stop the bleeding. Firefighters and paramedics quickly arrived and took him to the ER around the corner in Rosewood isn't any better? A near fight over accused snitching. With no intention or desire to leave this lifestyle. It's a blessing because I want to be some mind. That's my freedom. Jose Sanchez says his next door neighbor who lived in this RV still parked here, died of an overdose last month and back in October, has not responded to almost 40 barrels of wood glue seeping into the storm drain. Doreen Campos says it was an accident by her ex husband, Carpenter, now homeless with a Taser in her back pocket. She visits him often to help, but he doesn't have anybody else. I had three kids with them. I've never seen him this bad in, you know, in his life, Matthews offers his assistance as well. A lot of the homeless out here. No one trusts him and even invite him inside, rat infested RVs that have hundreds of rats everywhere. The 57 year old moved here from Pasadena six years ago with some savings as a private chef quit at the start of COVID to form the harbor Gateway Chamber of Commerce. He doesn't make any money but earns what he holds more valuable, a sense of purpose and fulfilling the promise he made to help his new community, not only the outraged residents But the homeless Matthews met Fabiola Robles, who quit her accounting job in August to voluntarily help him full time me and my family decided to do community clean up, So we started doing that every Saturday, and from there, I learned how complicated our jurisdictions were and how much of a need we had to help our community just with keeping it clean, Simple trash pick up the majority of our views are being rented. So the rent If you don't pay your rent on time, they're basically burning you out. Who are they renting from their renting from unknown individuals that apparently own the bulk of these armies that are on the street, along with about a dozen volunteers. The two advocates did a homeless count last month. The findings staggering. 552 homeless RVs in six square miles . There's 65 kids in seven RVs in one area. And why. That's the That's the million dollar question 425 of these RVs lie within a six mile radius and 10% of them are on L. A city land the other 90% fall within unincorporated county, which makes solving this crisis even more challenging. Matthews only represents that 1/10 of the area but says he's trying to help everyone here and needs a lot more support. These are people who need our help. We can't just say someone else is going to do it. There isn't someone else. It's got to start from within the community, a man of his word, striving to do all in his power to help the house and housed so everyone in the community can have peace. And feel safe at home. In Harbor, Gateway, Hailey Winslow and Gino Arias, Fox 11 news. So Haley just mentioned that 90% number And that means 90% of the homeless RVs fall in L. A county supervisor Holly Mitchell's district. Remember they oversee incorporate parts of L, a county. So we're trying to reach out to Supervisor Mitchell's office for a week. She just responded and just sent us this . My team will be working with all the county teams in our community partners to prioritize housing
