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This week’s deadly wildfires in Southern California have destroyed or damaged thousands of structures, including many landmarks that hold a spot in cinematic and cultural history. The Los Angeles area blazes, which authorities say have killed at least five people, have leveled homes, businesses and schools at an alarming speed. It’s one of several Los Angeles County schools that sustained “significant” fire damage, according to the Los Angeles Unified School District. California State Parks“California State Parks mourns the loss of these treasured natural and cultural resources, and our hearts go out to everyone impacted by the devastating fires in the Los Angeles area,” State Parks Director Armando Quintero said. Topanga Ranch Motel: Also owned by the state parks department, the Topanga Ranch Motel was constructed in 1929 by newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst.

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☆ An iconic LA high school with A-list alumni that was a set for films including 'Carrie' has been partially destroyed by a wildfire
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

LA's Palisades Charter High School was damaged by a wildfire on Tuesday. A wildfire partially destroyed an iconic Los Angeles high school with A-list alumni, which was used as a set for iconic films including "Freaky Friday" and "Carrie." Palisades Charter High School, which was set to start a new term next week, set on fire on Tuesday evening. Palisades Charter High School has a rich pop culture legacySissy Spacek at Bates High School Senior Prom in the horror film 'Carrie', 1976. Palisades Charter High School was used as a location for Beacon Hills High School in "Teen Wolf."

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Wildfires have broken out in Los Angeles and are raging through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. Wildfires in Los Angeles are tearing through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, home to A-list actors, including Ben Affleck — who bought his $20.5 million mansion there in July. ADThe fire started on Tuesday in the Pacific Palisades before spreading west toward the Malibu stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway. AD"The Pacific Palisades is a resilient community of amazing people and we know in time it will rise again. "Honestly, I'm in shock and feeling numb for all so many have lost, including my family," she wrote in an Instagram post.

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Two other fires have erupted in Los Angeles County: The 500-acre strong Hurst fire north of San Fernando, and the Eaton fire in Altadena, which has grown to 1,000 acres in a matter of hours. • No containment expected: There is no possibility of containing the Los Angeles fires tonight, and firefighters are focusing on saving lives instead, said David Acuna, the CAL Fire spokesperson. • Firefighter warnings: Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt. The Los Angeles Fire Department is also asking off-duty members to call in to help battle the blaze. • Schools close: Five schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District will close on Wednesday, and classes are moving online.

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☆ Wildfires burn out of control across Los Angeles area and kill 5 as thousands flee homes
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

With thousands of firefighters already attacking the flames, the Los Angeles Fire Department put out a plea for off-duty and out-of-state firefighters to help. The Palisades Fire burns near homes amid a powerful windstorm on January 7, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, California. An aircraft drops fire retardant over the area of a wildfire burning near Pacific Palisades on the west side of Los Angeles during a weather driven windstorm, in Los Angeles, California, Jan. 7, 2025. Firefighters work at the site of a brush fire pushed by gusting Santa Ana winds on Jan. 7, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California. "We are absolutely not out of danger yet," Los Angeles city Fire Chief Kristin M. Crowley said.

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☆ Five Students Wounded in Slashing at Queens High School
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Claire Fahy | More About Claire Fahy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Five students were wounded and later arrested on Wednesday after a slashing at a Queens high school, the police said. The slashing occurred during a fight that broke out around 12:43 p.m. at the school, New Dawn Charter High School II in Jamaica, according to law enforcement authorities. Five students were involved, as well as a security guard who tried to break it up. All five students and the guard were taken to a nearby hospital, where they were treated for minor injuries; the five students were then taken into custody. In two consecutive days in December, a 12-year-old girl was slashed in the leg at a Bronx middle school and a 15-year-old boy was stabbed at a Brooklyn high school.

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☆ A Union That Felt Like ‘a Love Letter to Black Culture’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Sadiba Hasan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“Black love is a form of resistance.”The phrase became a mantra for Tristan St. John Thompson, who is an academic and culture dean at Dream Charter High School in the South Bronx. He frequently talks about “places of resistance” with the students “who look like me and are from where I’m from,” said Mr. Thompson, 31, who was born and raised in the Bronx. “Even education is a form of resistance in a world that is sometimes telling you that you aren’t enough and you aren’t doing enough.”As his relationship with Tyla Jenel Wade, 29, developed, he began seeing their love, too, as a form of resistance. “We are going to do whatever we have to in order to make sure that we support each other and the people around us,” Mr. Thompson said.

☆ 'It killed my spirit': How 3 teachers are navigating the burnout crisis in education
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

After two years of weathering pandemic disruptions, safety concerns and tense public scrutiny, burned-out teachers have quit the profession in droves. At least 300,000 public-school teachers and other staff left the field between February 2020 and May 2022, The Wall Street Journal reports. Some teachers quit because of the challenges of teaching during a global pandemic, while others, taking note of the Great Resignation, found higher-paid opportunities in other industries. "He began the conversation about how education is full of inequity, and how teachers can help resolve some of the inequity that exists." When her school re-opened for the 2021-2022 school year, Paulino felt even more lost.

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