Schools ‘fighting’ to welcome students displaced by fires
How LA’s Catholic schools are ‘fighting’ to welcome students displaced by fires
Not many have experienced the uneasiness the LA fires caused as uniquely as Phyllis Cremer, the principal at St. Elizabeth School in Altadena. Not only did students and parents turn to her as the Eaton Fire ravaged their homes, but she herself was evacuated, and is now displaced, because of fire damage to her home.
“It’s like a death,” she said. “Here’s this life that I had that is no longer and that literally went away. Now, being an administrator for a school that is dispersed is probably the hardest thing that I have ever experienced.”
But if anyone can help navigate and make sense of what happened, where the school community goes from here, and how not to lose faith in the process, it’s Cremer.