California Chevrolet-Palisades Charter High School joint venture baseball team is crowded in its full outdoor field of its temporary houses, which is a temporary venue for the displaced team. The playful surface and outer grass are spots and unhealthy. Without the pier, its main purpose is for the battleball.
But this is what they must cooperate with them. The tragic environment-a fire swept their school and the city-there is almost no relationship between them reaching this place. What is important? The university captain Ryan Hirschberg was dissatisfied with the efforts and concentration of junior college students in common practice.
Herbeir told the team after the practice.
“This is not because we want you to run. If we mess up, we will run.”
Hirschberg has been practicing players until it allows the coach to join in early February, so he completed his work. Scold them for this, and then watched them all passing through the field and entering the adjacent field.
At that moment, this approach was very serious. The consequences of failure are reasonable. Moreover, if they are not locked at the existence of the CHEVIOT HILLS Entertainment Center, this will be truly punished, and the city allows the team to prepare for the season.
But in many aspects, baseball does not matter. How is Ian Sullivan possible? A left -handed pitcher, his house was burned, and the fire took away all his tangible childhood memories. How is Jett Teegardin possible? A junior field player visited the community he was burned a day later, and then returned to a hotel that had become a temporary home.
However, at this moment, baseball is more important than anything, because they wanted Very important. The life of Palisades aroused people’s lives for all 38 baseball players who occupied joint ventures and university lists. They gather together to support each other through trauma experience. They don’t know where they will play this year, or what uniforms or equipment they use, but they are determined to send a team to have their own season. Now, they have additional significance to the championship. For them, baseball is a brief escape tragedy. However, this is also an opportunity to do something for a community that urgently needs something.
Heshiberg said: “In this case, the characters have been established, and they show people your identity.” He donated clothes and organized exercises, and began a GofundMe that raised $ 13,000. Friends of teammates.
“People will not see your best person at the best. This is the worst period you must show people.”
On Tuesday, January 7th, the infamous fire now surpasses the Palisids and other communities in Los Angeles. It killed dozens of houses, destroyed thousands of houses, and recruited everyone’s life and secular property.
This high school is used as a scene such as “weird Friday”, such as “modern families” -The severe damage. Although most of the baseball fields are still intact, the surrounding areas have been seriously affected. The facility cannot be accessed. The uniforms and equipment may not be used.
The area around Palisades Charter High School was severely damaged. (Genaro Molina / LOS Angeles Times through Getty image)
Mike Voelkel, head coach, does not know where they play at home games this season-hope is the University of Lotara Marymont, the University of California Los Angeles and other local universities-but it doesn’t matter. If it involves, his team will play every game on the road.
“I told the children, I said, ‘We are playing. I don’t care.” Voelkel recalled. “If necessary, we will look at the T -shirt. It is used to recover and health. To promote the development of children. The important thing is to return there.
“Some people tend to live or play victims. These are those who stay there, sometimes their lives. I plan to do everything possible to return our children back to the field.”
Voelkel, who lives in the south of Palisades, remembers that the fire woke up from a nap in the afternoon. On the morning, he had received an email to instruct employees not to participate in ITO.
His TV was adjusted to Spectrum News, where he saw Gavin Newsom, Governor of California on the screen. At that time, he realized how this situation may become.
He began to contact players and his family, many of which were evacuating. Voelkel is an 18 -year -old coach and devoted so many emotions and physical labor to the team and facilities. He didn’t know if it would end that day.
As we all know, Pali High School’s courses have become completely online. However, the separation of the body did not prevent his team from immediately taking action to help each other. Voelkel’s wife, Norma, worked in real estate and began to work hard to ensure that everyone has accommodation.
Players are providing supply to teammates. A player drove to another home in the city to prevent the fire and finally gave them. The main well -known companies and people began to reach out to provide supplies. Dave Roberts, the manager of Los Angeles Dodge, said he and some players are planning to participate in exercises in the near future. The team also donated baseball. The Cincinnatt red pitcher and the Los Angeles local Hunter Greene donated anti -slip nails. Pali High School Basketball Team received a ticket from the Los Angeles Lakers Warriors from Steve Kerr.
Support; it did not eliminate its own season and upside -down trauma. This baseball team was immediately committed to reconstruction, and this tragedy was still ongoing. When they participated in the field again, their new jersey will sew a “Pali” patch on them.
Voelkel was asked what the meaning of this season, but the problem was cut off before completing.
“Victory,” he said frankly in the answer.
“Take away everything. Put it together. In order to take care of our family. There are many things. I want to win the game, I am very competitive. But in this case, you must check the whole. There are other things. Far more than winning. “
Hirschberg gave him a few days ago Jett Teegardin’s practice uniform. This is one of his only clothes.
He squeezed Max for two days and thought that he and his mother would return home soon. That night, they watched the ring doorbell camera and saw Yu Ember flying around.
The next day, he returned to a house that no longer exists. Even the content of the fire sale is destroyed. He has grown into love neighbors now disappear.
“This is difficult. You imagine yourself in the house, room, everything that disappears,” Teegardin said. “I am a sperm donor. So I really don’t have a father’s figure. I just want to go there for my mother. In every case, I have been trying to serve her.
“I chat with her to ensure that she is okay and make me okay. Knowing that she is OK, I am 10 times.”
When Ian Sullivan thought about his lost things, his thoughts entered the game. The one he got when he was 8 years old. Nian Jian, trophy, the big needle of traveling in Capeston, New York-all the relics of his childhood.
On the day when he was ordered, Shalvin believed that the wind would blow in the opposite direction. His parents were working, so he packed up family photos, their cats and dogs, and then left, thinking that it was short.
Instead, one week after the fire, Shalvin met with 12 friends in his fifth grade at a friend’s house of Carabasus. Almost all their houses were destroyed. The party is an opportunity to be together.
He said: “This is a dark period, but the light will always shine in the darkness.” “Palisid is back. I don’t think I not only played for myself and my teammates, but also for my town and my town and my town and and Family.
After the fire, Shalvin and Teegardin sent a group text message to everyone in the team. They know that in view of their situation, teammates may be cautious around them. They hope that sending text will destroy the wall.
They wrote: “If this fire is not ignited your ass and let you have the motivation to win this year, then I don’t know what it is.”
The response began to flood. “Yes,” a send. People who have never made contributions are signed information with their encouragement.
“I think everyone is more motivated than ever,” Teegardin said. “That’s the spark that everyone do my best … … We must win now. We must do this for us and our coaches.
“This fire makes us closer.”
This is a picturesque Wednesday afternoon. The sun has just begun to take root in this practice, because the people in the park are close to practice and are curious about what is happening.
According to players, this often happens. People are curious about more information about what they are dealing with.
The man and his dog approached the door and separated the field from the sidewalk. He asked Sullivan to restore the injured arm there, the team they were with them. Following the conversation-talk about the fire, lose the house and the upcoming season. Chat movies are so relaxed and friendly, and there is almost no reflection on its theme.
“Good luck,” he said to Shalvin. “It’s terrible.”
His father Joe Stanley drove three players to practice. He was sitting, concentrating on the row of the stands, wearing a team’s hat.
“I think this is definitely tough and proud. These children are like a family,” Stanley said. “They spent a lot of time together and were a close contact group. This is great. They need this.”
All this has a normal feeling. However, even in this case, these children are keenly aware of their reality. Jude de Pastino, a junior student, said that everyone in his team was suffering, even if they didn’t feel it. He said that the practice brought some normal.
For the first four days after the fire, he was “shocked.” He went to Palisades with a group of friends who lost his home. Logan Bailey, the same senior captain, said that he saw that the on -street wires on the street were knocked down on the street and the phone pole burned. He said that this is almost a super real movie.
“This is beyond your imagination, and the picture really cannot be done by your imagination.” “As everyone knows, our life has actually been flat.”
After nearly three hours of practice, the group was squeezed again before the sun was completely falling. Parents’ cars began to be full of parking lots and waited for their son. This probation is very special. It is needed, it will last until late February.
But as far as you are concerned, this slow is over. In real life, it is more terrible and uncertain than ever before.
Bailey said: “This is one of your stories at the end of his life.” “You may be as old as possible, and it will never leave your thoughts. It will be with everyone here for the rest of your life.”
(Illustration: DeMetrius Robinson, sports; Photo: Josh Edelson /Through Getty Images, Sam Blum)
