The scene will remain etched in his memory forever. “There were ten children left when the firefighters told us that we had to leave immediately,” tells us the director of the nursery school at the French high school in Los Angeles, Clara-Lisa Kabbaz. An evacuation last Wednesday that looked like a survival exercise.
“The teachers picked them up, put them in their personal cars and rushed to the beach. Some had to abandon their vehicles in traffic jams. » It was only when they arrived at an improvised parking lot that the children were handed over to their parents, in tears.