At least 12 schools have been destroyed by the wildfires, displacing more than 5,600 students.
In Altadena alone, almost 2,000 students have nowhere to go to school. They include 7-year-old Lucy Van Voorhis, who can’t wrap her mind around losing her school, Odyssey Charter School, to the Eaton Fire.
“I’m just really sad at that, because I love that school,” she told CBS News. “… I loved my friends there. I loved my teacher. I loved the playground in PE, all those monkey bars that we could play on, and the basketball court that we had.”
She says evacuating her family’s home felt like a bad dream.
“I was really scared,” she said. “I mean, it was in the middle of the night when it was happening. So I’m still a little bit scared of the dark.”
Hudson Yu, 10, and his brother Atticus, 7, who attend the Pasadena Waldorf School, also evacuated their home.
“We were sitting at our dining room table, and we could see the glow of the fire over our courtyard wall,” Hudson said.
Hours later, their father, a firefighter, saw their home of seven years engulfed in flames.
“We are trying not to show them some of the images because it is so heartbreaking,” their mother, Kim Yu, said.
She added, “School is a big part of it because that is really where, it is their foundation of a family’s daily life, and now we do not have that.”
Several schools destroyed in Los Angeles-area wildfires
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