"The real story is the staff and teachers at Marquez Elementary School literally rescued the children and saved their lives. When they were evacuating the upper yard where the classrooms are to the lower yard, an assembly point fixed wing aircraft were doing water drops as the fires were climbing up the hill towards the campus," said Ethan Tyer, whose daughter and son had attended Marquez Charter Elementary School in Pacific Palisades.
"It's a happy day, it's a really exciting day seeing the Marquez children seeing their teachers. I think that just brought them together," said Nora Sterry Principal Dr. Sara Lasnover.
"We're excited to help them out. We feel bad they lost their school and everything and they're having a hard time," said Lindsay Christensen, who had just picked up her son when we spoke to her.
"It's very important to me as the principal at Nora Sterry that my community not feel slighted in anyway. Let me set the record straight, every one of our students is in a classroom," said Lasnover.
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