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And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666#t=0.36,3.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666/transcript/88169/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm Steve Tolbert. So","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666#t=3.0,5.6"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666/transcript/88169/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e we lived right across the street from Saint Mark's School. And that's another, you know, part of this story. But on the personal side, um, I was attending to the school that day. We were closed because of the high winds. And so I was, um, picking up debris and just hopefully getting ready for the next day of school because we didn't have students that day. Um, it started to get dark. The lights were still out. And so I wound up going back home. We had dinner by candlelight. Um, and then we received an alert, uh, that day, um, just letting us know that there were high winds and wildfires, fast moving wildfires in the area. And then not long after that, we got a second notification to evacuate. And that really surprised us. We were not, um, you know, expecting that things would escalate that quickly, but we could certainly see the wind and saw the evidence of that. And at that point, we just started mobilizing to evacuate. There was a lot of chaos in the neighborhood at that time. Lots of people rushing to get to their cars and evacuate. We saw fire trucks and sirens, and I remember going up to the second level of our house and looking out the window, because I just couldn't believe that things had moved that quickly, and we could see the fires so close to our home. And and that's when we knew we had to really move quickly. We grabbed a couple of bags, um, each of us, we grabbed a box of important documents, a box of photos, um, a couple of other items in our cat, and and we left. So it it happened pretty abruptly. And I just remember being calm, but also really, um, unsettled. Settled. Um, and I think as we drove away and I've talked to so many people about this as well, um, I never anticipated that we wouldn't be going back to our house. You know, it just felt like we were packing for a few days. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666#t=5.64,133.82"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666/transcript/88169/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e And just to add to that, um, we live. The fire started about three miles east of us, and the winds were blowing at 70, 80 miles an hour as west. And as Jennifer mentioned, you know, we we've we've been we've experienced high winds before, you know, furniture on a patio being rearranged and all of that. Uh, this was a little bit different and that the power had gone out. Uh, it went out that morning, I think. And then it came back on at some point during the day. And then it went out again, and I was actually on a zoom call, and without power, I had to use my phone, you know, the hotspot for my phone. And it started getting so dark that I. The only thing I could see was a computer screen. I couldn't see my notes or anything. So I ended the call, went downstairs and we were ready to kind of grab a bite to eat because someone had sent some food to us, and she got a text message from one of her employees saying, you know, heard about a fire. Uh, we went into prayer and as soon as we said Amen, we got the emergency alert that Jennifer mentioned saying, fast moving fire, be prepared. And so we started mobilizing at that at that moment. Uh, but like Jennifer said, we. We didn't think that we thought we were going to come back and and then 37 minutes later, we got the notice saying evacuate immediately. So, uh, but we did have a sense of calm, I think, because of our faith. Uh, that really helped us out. Um, and we had prepared some boxes before. Just in case. Unfortunately, we only grabbed one box of valuable documents. There were two boxes I didn't realize I had until we. Until we had driven off, and we got a chance to grab my dad's urn. Um. And, uh, I have. I work from home, so, uh, I grabbed a couple of files in my laptop. Um, left a lot of things behind, and we grabbed a few clothes and and moved out. Yeah. So","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666#t=133.86,269.35"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666/transcript/88169/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e as we were evacuating from the house, which is right across the street from the school, I called my board chair, um, and my first instinct was to run into the school and just grab, you know, important things. And, you know, just. I was trying to think about what should I be taking, you know, on behalf of the school. And, you know, my my instinct. And I've been trained to, you know, sort of go down with the ship, if you will. You know, um, and so I called my board chair and I said, I feel like I shouldn't leave, you know, I feel like I'm abandoning the school if I go, you know, and and he said, listen, you know, you need to leave now. We can replace all of the items, but we can't replace our head of school, you know. And he said, so I if you need me to say this, I will say it right now. You I am ordering you, you know, to to evacuate. And so I did I did that um, we were fortunate to be able to evacuate about 45 minutes away. Um, and we were watching kind of in real time, our house that had alerts, um, both smoke and then heat sensors. Um, so we were getting alerts for smoke and then heat. Um, and we knew, you know, that the house was going down, and we suspected because it was so close to the school that that the school was right behind that. And I got some of those alerts on the school. Well. So we were also watching TV and, you know, getting the footage. And I think it was at that time that we realized just how devastating the fires were. We were watching firefighters trying to put out fires with, you know, without success. Um, so, you know, we feared the worst. Um, and then the next day, uh, someone from the church, because we're a church and school, uh, someone sent some photos of our campus, and I could see, you know, that everything was gone. I saw where my office was. Um, you know, all of our buildings from that vantage point were gone. However, um, I was still wondering about the preschool building that we had just completed. Um, we had done several years of fundraising and then a year of construction and just completed a new building. In fact, on that, the day before, the kids weren't in school, but I was doing a final walk through of that building. We had sent out an invitation for ribbon cutting, you know, so we were getting ready to move into that building in just a couple of weeks. I had not heard whether that building had survived, but I was hearing that maybe it was still there. And in fact, that next day, someone confirmed that that building was still standing. And I just remember feeling a sense of relief. So many people had contributed to that building. So much went into, you know, constructing that new, you know, new building, which signified a new chapter for the school. And the fact that it was still standing just gave me a great sense of hope that I knew we were going to rebuild, and we at least had one building to get us started. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666#t=269.39,454.61"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666/transcript/88169/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e And I think, um, you know, we talked about thinking we were going to go back, but, you know, to just to add to that, that story, the next day, our children showed up to our home or to where we were staying, and they showed up with laptops and, and coffee, and they literally set up a command center at our home and just really helping us to kind of level set. Fielding phone calls, um, setting up, um, fielding phone calls from people that wanted to. Donate food. People that wanted to donate clothes. Um, they made appointments for us. With FEMA, they kind of went through and said, okay, now, you know, we're going to get put in a change of address for you. We're going to do this. We're going to do these things. And then they ask the question, they say, well, what kind of subscriptions do you have, uh, that are going to the house? We need to cancel all those subscriptions. So it really gave us, um, a sense of calm that they were really thinking about the level of thinking about things to the level of detail that, uh, that we were not capable of doing at that particular time. And, you know, kind of they created Google Docs and spreadsheets, um, um, you know, with recollections of that kind of the different rooms and furniture that was in the different rooms and things of that nature. So it was very comforting to see our children show up for us that way. Uh, we also had, you know, we we've given and, you know, we have just a generous spirit. And so we've given to a lot of causes over the years. And it was just remarkable the number of phone calls that we got from people that really wanted to help us in that, in that particular moment. And it was hard for us to do that because we're so used to giving other people. And one of our friends said to us, look, um, there are people that are seeing what's happening and they're looking to be a blessing to other people, and they want to bless you. And not only are you blocking your blessing, you're blocking them from being a blessing. And that really stuck with us. And that that allowed us to kind of free up and accept the the generosity that they were, that they were offering to us. I think, you know, with with regard to the school, uh, Jennifer's first inclination, uh, you know, her first inclination was, you know, what about, you know, not necessarily the building as much as the people like her immediate instinct was how many other people were affected and how do we keep the school running, um, and looking for locations and so forth. So there was a lot, a lot going on. There are a lot of substories, uh, subplots to to a lot of what we're saying. But, um, that's a at a high level. That's what what happened. So","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666#t=454.61,634.96"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666/transcript/88169/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e you're right to say that, uh, we are blessed, the Saint Mark's community to be, uh, within the Altadena community, so close knit. When I think about how people speak about their neighborhoods and their communities, I think the people of Altadena have always known what a gem it is, because I think it's one of the rare places in this world left in this world, where you still know your neighbor. You still have a sense of being part of something bigger than yourself. And I think the diversity of the neighborhood in every way, um, you know, just made it a home for so many. And so the fact that our school has been there since 1960, a neighborhood school very much representative of the Altadena community, the Pasadena community, and over time, you know, having a further reach than that. But that that is so much a part of who we are. And sometimes you don't know, um, or recognize, I guess, um, the strength of your community until it's tried in a moment like this. And I've known the power of the Saint Mark's community. I knew it because I had heard about it before I took my job. And now I'm entering my 11th year at Saint Mark's, which is hard to believe, but that's what I had heard about the community before I came. And I can tell you so many stories, and this is probably the most notable one in this fire about just how our community came together. Um, immediately, you know, people reached out to me to say, I heard what happened, how can I help? You know? And some of those folks were people who lost their homes as well, you know, uh, the Lim family being one of them. You know, I heard from members of my board of trustees, faculty and staff to say we recognize the enormity of this moment, and we're here to help. Let me know what I can do. And, you know, the days following that were overwhelming. You know, my first instinct as, as Steve mentioned, was to, you know, sort of figure out how to get our community back together as quickly as possible. And so, um, that was the beginning of a lot of partnerships. The power of partnership is a huge part of our story. Um, first with La Canada Presbyterian Church. They helped us bring our community back together within ten days and and gave us time to find another, more permanent location. Um, and so we were able to relocate through two other partnerships, um ef Academy and Pasadena, uh, boarding school that had room for us and made room for us. Um, and then also Church of Our Savior, another Episcopal school and or Episcopal church in San Gabriel. And so you recognize the power of your network in a moment like that? Um, we were able to leverage, um, you know, the partnerships in our community to get to those places and to help us stand up our school. And so I'm so grateful for that. And then, you know, people reached out to us personally as well. Um, people wanted us to have a GoFundMe page. We we didn't set one up because we didn't want to get in the way of other community members who needed the support, but people still, you know, just came to our doorstep with, you know, clothes and food and just everything that we needed to, um, you know, be present and, you know, to lead the school through, through that moment. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666#t=634.96,848.15"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666/transcript/88169/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e And I think so, just to I want to go a little bit deeper into the people showing up. So when we left our home, I think Jennifer might have had about three outfits and I might have had about six maybe. And, you know, that's what we had. I mean, and, uh, within a matter, by the time the month was over, uh, Jennifer's network had supplied her with a brand new wardrobe. And I just thought that was remarkable. We were coming home every day to boxes of clothes. I was coming home every day to boxes of clothes that her friends were sending from all over the country, you know. And then on top of that, when we were looking for a place as you as you can imagine. Right. Everybody's looking for, uh, looking to rent a property. And, you know, sadly, we had a lot of homeowners that were trying to gouge and, uh, you know, wanted to charge exorbitant rates and things like that. Well, one home, the home where we found that that we wound up renting, uh, the family, uh, the son had actually gone to the preschool years ago, had gone to Saint Mark's preschool years ago. And when they saw that we were at Saint Mark's family, they wanted to they out of the hundreds of other applicants, they chose us because they wanted to, uh, show the connection to the community. So I think that's just a great example. And this person had gone to Saint Mark's preschool years ago. Uh, so that's just the impact that the saint, the Saint Mark's has on the community at large and the people that have have gone through there. Um, I also, you know, from a broader sense of, of community, um, I'm, I'm a member of a fraternity. And there were, I think, seven members of the Pasadena chapter who lost their homes. Well, the broader fraternity, it's an international fraternity, the broader fraternity they raised, they raised funds to support the people, uh, the brothers that were affected, uh, whose homes were affected by the fires. And then, you know, we, uh, our family, as Jennifer had mentioned, came to, uh, came to our aid and, uh, people from my college from years ago, people were telling me that, you know, you you helped us. You helped me. I don't know, 20 or 30 years ago. You probably don't remember what you did, but I want to help you. So, um, it's just a really incredible story of just not just the Saint Mark's in Pasadena community and Altadena community, but it's just a community at large that really came together and it's still happening. It's still happening there. I've been in conversations, uh, just earlier this week, just a casual conversation at an event, and they were talking about the work that they were doing over in Pasadena. They were part of a foundation. And and I told them about what happened to us in Saint Mark's School. And, um, he said, I want to help. How can I how can I help? So here we are almost seven months later, and there are people that are still trying to pour into Saint Mark's and the Altadena community at large. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666#t=848.19,1043.329"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666/transcript/88169/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e I would also add that, um, we did set up, um, a link to support our school, and I was just overwhelmed by the hundreds of people who, um, contributed to the school. Everything from, you know, $10, you know, from some of our alumni, um, young alumni to, you know, foundations who gave us, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was really moved by that. Um, you know, just wanting to come to our aid because we needed the help and will continue to need the help. So I appreciated that. And I would say also, we're known at Saint Mark's for a strong partnership between home and school. Um, we lock arms with our parents to raise kids together. And in a moment of crisis, um, you know, you really appreciate the strength of community in that way. And the parents just, you know, assembled together. Um, while we were standing up the school to support each other. Um, families took each other in. You know, families who didn't have a home, uh, you know, didn't need to worry long about that because someone from Saint Mark's took them in. So our parent community continues to be strong and just really shined in this moment. Thank you. Well, I have so many hopes. Um, but I think probably my biggest overall hope is just a full recovery for everyone. Um, I know so many of us have concerns, many concerns, from environmental to just the cost of rebuilding. Um, not wanting to lose the the sense of community in Altadena. There's so many things that go into a full recovery, but that would be my best hope that not only for our school and for us personally, but for the entire Altadena community to come back even stronger than it was before and to have the the support, the full support from our public officials and others, um, so that we can make a full recovery in every sense of that word. I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666#t=1043.329,1165.9"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666/transcript/88169/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e don't have much to add to that other than, um, uh, you know, my heart goes out and our hearts go out to those families who lost their loved ones, uh, and the fire there, you know, they talk a lot about, um, I think there were 17 or 18 families, where they found 18 families that um, uh, are persons that that passed away in the fire. But they there also are families who lost loved ones after the fire. Uh, there were, you know, we heard several stories of, you know, people that had health conditions and health issues that, um, sadly, uh, for different reasons, uh, did not survive or passed, passed shortly after. And so just hoping for healing, uh, for them and hoping that, um, the community will continue to stick together and rebuild. Uh, yes. You know, there's, you know, there are people that have moved out of the area and are selling property and so forth, but I think the Altadena community at large will continue to remain strong, I think, and it's because of the partnerships that have developed, When people hear about Saint Mark's School, they're always they've always got a story. It's amazing. Uh, there were people that I talked to that I've known for a long time. And, um, they'll tell me. Yeah, I know Saint Mark's School. I remember Saint so-and-so went to Saint Mark's School. So it's just there's just a lot of great stories that, that, that come out of that. And you realize what a pillar in the community that, that Saint Mark's was. So our hope is that the school, uh, will come back stronger than ever. Uh, and that, of course, that, you know, our home will be rebuilt and then we're just going to continue to support one another. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666#t=1165.9,1278.64"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666/transcript/88169/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e I would just also add that I think as an educator, I recognize and as a parent that we are meaning makers for our students. And so one of my biggest hopes to from this moment is that our children, um, and for all of us, really walk away with a sense of hope for the future, a sense of resilience, to know that we can come through something hard like this and come out stronger, and our kids at Saint Mark's will have a lot of resilience. This is not obviously how we would have wanted them to build that muscle, but I think the greatest life lesson that they're going to learn from this is that, um, communities come together in a hard time like this, and this is how you come through a hard moment like this in life. That's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666#t=1278.64,1327.32"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666/transcript/88169/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e right, I think. I'm just grateful. I just have a sense of gratitude because we we did survive. We lost a lot of things. But we have our lives. And there's there's a reason. There's a reason why we're still here. And not just us, but others. And I think we need to take that. The fact that we are still here and make sure that we Repay that gratitude for still being here by continuing to serve and help others and help uplift others. 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Um, and, you know, hopefully our, our story, the Saint Mark's community, um, at large, Altadena, um, you know, just will inspire other people, um, as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666#t=1365.81,1412.25"}]},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666/index/90426","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Auto-generated Index (2025-10-29 23:09:37) [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666/index/90426/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Introduction and Setting the Scene","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666#t=0.0,36.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164558/file/299666/index/90426/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jennifer and Steve Tolbert introduce themselves and describe their proximity to Saint Mark's School. 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He recounts how their faith provided a sense of calm during the evacuation, despite the uncertainty and the realization that they might not return home. 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Her board chair insists she prioritize her safety, emphasizing her irreplaceable value. After evacuating, the Tolberts monitor their home and the school remotely, receiving alerts that confirm the destruction of both. 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