Breaking: USC community reeling from LA wildfires

The destruction was unfathomable.

Sophomore Ella Zarrow fled her childhood home in Pacific Palisades Tuesday. Days later, when her father returned, the news he sent back was grim. 

The entire house was burned to rubble.

“It’s hard to wrap my head around,” Zarrow said. “Everything is gone.”

Zarrow is among an unknown number of USC students, faculty, and staff who’ve lost their homes — or been temporarily displaced — as the Palisades and Eaton fires continue their blitz through Los Angeles County.

Morning, Trojan identified over a dozen USC community members whose homes have been destroyed through GoFundMe listings. But the real number is likely several orders of magnitude higher given USC’s more than 22,000 full-time employees and 47,000 students, many of whom are certain to live in the vast affected areas.

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