Not long after the Eaton fire displaced her family from their Los Angeles home, 10-year-old Emory Stumme broke down. The tears came during a family dinner, and she struggled to catch her breath.

"You just were like, 'I can't pick up this fork, it's too heavy,' " Emory's mother, Becca, told her, recounting the episode. "You started crying and laughing and crying, and then heaving. I was like, 'Oh my God, she's really having a mental break.' "

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Becca Stumme, her husband and their two kids lost their Altadena home in the fire. Emory and her 3-year-old brother's schools hit pause until they could relocate. When the Eaton and Palisades fires sparked in January — respectively the second- and third- most destructive in California history — familiarity, friend gr

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