After the Eaton wildfire, St. Elizabeth School in Altadena leans on its history
Phyllis Cremer is trying to describe the frenetic, shades-of-gray days after the Eaton Fire decimated swaths of Altadena and Pasadena.
“Do you know how you feel after a death in the family?” she asks. “This feels like the day after the funeral, when you look around and everyone is living their lives, riding their bikes, and you’ve got this pain. At the same time you need the juxtaposition, having to make so many decisions and then doing something normal.”
Cremer, principal of St. Elizabeth Parish School in Altadena, and her husband Douglas, a deacon at St. Elizabeth Church, have spent the days after the Eaton Fire taking stock of difficult news.