Wells Fargo Contributes $250,000 to American Red Cross for Victims of Southern California Fires

Wells Fargo Contributes $250,000 to American Red Cross for Victims of Southern
California Fires 


LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wells Fargo & Company  said
today it will contribute $250,000 to the American Red Cross disaster relief fund
to assist victims of the Southern California wild fires that have affected
Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego Counties.

"The fires raging throughout Southern California, from Ventura down to San
Diego, have destroyed hundreds of homes and taken at least a dozen lives," said
Laura Schulte, Wells Fargo regional president for California, Nevada and the
Mexican Border community bank.  "Wells Fargo wants to provide as much help and
support as we can for our neighbors, our customers and our own team members who
have been directly affected by this devastating disaster."

Wells Fargo has a total of 346 stores in the impacted areas of Southern
California.  All of its stores in Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San
Bernardino Counties are open today.  In San Diego County, a dozen stores are
closed due to their proximity to the fires.

Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $391
billion in assets, providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and
consumer finance from more than 5,900 stores and the Internet ( wellsfargo.com )
across North America and elsewhere internationally.  Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. is
the only "Aaa"-rated bank in the United States. 

DATASOURCE: Wells Fargo & Company



CONTACT:  Los Angeles, Mary Trigg, [phone], or San Diego, Chuck

Lemoine, [phone], both of Wells Fargo & Company



Web site:  http://www.wellsfargo.com/ 

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