From Redondo Beach, the raging Woolsey fire in Malibu may seem far away. But sometimes help is just a boat ride away.

“Feels good to help a fellow man in need, you know," said Matt Meistrell, a Redondo resident who's taken it upon himself to deliver relief by sea to victims in the fire zone.

And there's nothing that's going to stop Meistrell from getting donated supplies to those affected by the fires, or the firefighters battling the blaze in Malibu. Not even a new baby.

“My wife’s due in two days for our second child,” says Meistrell.

All it took was a text from Meistrell's good friend, Ryan Harris, who had two truckloads of supplies with no safe way to get them to Malibu.

“’Within 30 minutes we were loading stuff on to his boat," said Harris.

Before long, more friends stepped up. Word got out and the donations started piling up at Dive N' Surf, a surf and wet suit retailer that's been a South Bay fixture owned by the Meistrell family for six decades.

Some people even took the day off work to lend a hand, like Carol Mell, who can usually be found at her day job in human resources.

“We are going through all the donations and categorizing them, and pulling out the most essential items, “ said Mell.

Those essential items include sanitary wipes, chapstick, water, and fuel. 

Volunteers loaded up their vehicles and drove down to the dock in Redondo Beach where the Meistrell's boat was moored. Once the boat, which is named "Que Paso," was loaded up, they set sail for Paradise Cove, an area that's become a designated drop off point for boats coming in with relief and supplies.

Boats can only come within about 300 yards of shore, so to get the supplies from the boat to land, volunteers hop on giant inflatable paddle boats and haul the supplies in with jet skis. Other relief volunteers paddle up to the boats, load up with supplies and paddle back to shore. The loading and unloading goes on until all of the supplies are off-loaded from the boat and on the beach, where they can be distributed to people in need further inland.

Since the fire broke out, Meistrell, Harris and friends have completed many trips. Each person on the boat does this on their own time, in some cases taking vacation days from work or putting their own businesses on hold so they have time to help.

The makeshift band of seafaring relief workers has also set up a Go-Fund-Me account to help victims of the fire.

Harris and his friends Justin McComas, Seth Bergstrom, and Brian Toal were on-board one of three boats that took off Wednesday morning from Redondo to Malibu. Boat owners in Marina del Rey have also been delivering donations to Malibu this week.

Dive N' Surf says it plans to use moving trucks as the roads reopen to get donations to the people who need them.