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    How parents and teachers can calm kids' fire anxiety

    by Sonali Kohli and Nina Agrawal, Los Angeles Times Oct 29, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - During this Santa Ana wind season, 12-year-old Nicholas Ladesich tends to go to bed worrying about what might burn overnight. He often has dreams of waking up in his old house that burned down in the Woolsey fire last year.

    But he awakens instead in the living room of the one-bedroom guest house he shares with his brother and parents. He demands that his mom turn on the news to monitor possible fires while his 15-year-old brother Lucas uses an app to check the strength and direction of winds.

    "When he hears the wind, he goes straight to 'there's going to be

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