OAKLAND — From restaurants to record stores, Oakland businesses have helped out evacuees of the North Bay fires any way they could.

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Bobcat Fire grows to 91,000 acres as buildings burn Oakland’s Sweet Bar Bakery started collecting donations Oct. 11, said owner Mani Niall. The bakery’s staff sent out email and social media blasts letting people know they could leave donations at its 2355 Broadway location, and by the end of the first day it had collected 20 boxes full of clothing, children’s toys and other items.

Niall said the fires have affected several of his and his employees’ friends and family members. They felt the need to use their resources to help them out.

“Essentially, you can feel despair or you can do something,” Niall said. “We chose to do something.”

Oakland record store 1-2-3-4-GO! on 40th and Webster streets has also been accepting donations. Since Oct. 10 the record store has been posting messages on its Facebook page asking for specific items, based on what evacuation site volunteers say is needed.

UC Berkeley student Christine Canady, who has been volunteering alongside others to collect the items at the store and send them out, said people have been coming in the store about every three minutes with items to donate.

“It’s seriously incredible,” Canady said. “We’ve had calls from all over from people trying to drop off stuff. We also incredibly enough have a bunch of volunteers.”

Canady grew up in Santa Rosa and lives in Oakland.

“All my family has evacuated, and a ton of friends and loved ones have lost their homes,” Canady said.

Blue Bottle Coffee, which has its headquarters in Oakland and locations across the country, donated a dollar for every New Orleans Iced Coffee sold at its Bay Area shops from Oct. 12 to Oct. 15.

Another coffee shop chain with an Oakland location, Farley’s, donated tips and collected funds Oct. 10 for the Napa Valley Community Center. Between the company’s Oakland and San Francisco locations, it raised about $1,500, said owner Chris Hillyard via email.

“It was a collaborative effort between our customers, staff and Farley’s,” Hillyard said. “We are all very happy to contribute what we could and make the donation.”

The Oakland Yard Wine Shop at 420 40th St. donated all its proceeds from glasses of California wines sold to relief efforts for several days. In a post on the wine shop’s website, owner Daniel Schmidt said he worked for a winemaker in Santa Rose whose home burned to the ground.

“This week has been surreal and devastating,” Schmidt said in the Oct. 12 post.

Oakland’s Starline Social Club hosted fundraisers to benefit people affected by the fires and also collected donations.

Oakland community groups Feed the People and the East Oakland Collective distributed respirator masks to homeless people living in the city to help them cope with the poor air that covered the area for days. Dozens of people chipped in to pay for the masks, according to Feed the People’s Facebook page.