They are hurting but managing to find hope in 'tomorrow' - the victims of the LA fires They are the displaced and there are tens of thousands of them, 600 in an evacuation centre we visited.
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From elderly people who fled without their medication, to pregnant mothers desperate to escape the smoke, they had nowhere else to go.
Jim Mayfield, who has lived in the northern suburb of Altadena for 50 years, wept as he told me his dogs, Monkey and Coca, were all he had left.
