Category: Entertainment Tags: garth brooks concerts to help wildfire victims firefighters; performs live at staples center (ap) | Posted by dan838397 1576 days ago
Garth Brooks announces a series of five concerts over two days to benefit victims of wildfires in Southern California in 2007, at a Staples Center news conference Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. All proceeds from the five concerts over two days, 'Garth Brooks Live In L.A!' at Staples beginning Friday, Jan. 25, will be donated to an organization known as the 'Southern California 2008 Fire Intervention Relief Effort (F.I.R.E.).' The money will go to agencies helping victims and the first responders of the wildfires in addition to providing financial assistance to California firefighting departments. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officially, he's retired, but Garth Brooks admits you might not know it by watching him. On Friday, Brooks takes the stage for a nationally televised concert at the Staples Center to benefit victims of last year's Southern California wildfires and firefighters. He'll perform a second show there about an hour later, and three more on Saturday.

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