‘It’s like a disaster movie’: Limerick mother details teen son’s evacuation amid LA wildfires

A Limerick mother living in Los Angeles recounts her teenage son’s evacuation from basketball practice as wildfires devastated parts of the city
‘It’s like a disaster movie’: Limerick mother details teen son’s evacuation amid LA wildfires

A photo taken by the Cunningham Ahern family from their doorstep in Los Angeles. They say they are fortunate not to have had to evacuate their home, and also commend the new community spirit in the face of the LA fires: 'We now feel a stronger connection to our neighbours than ever before.' 

A Limerick mother has described how her teenage son and his teammates had to be evacuated from his school's basketball practice as the Los Angeles fires took hold.

Nora Ahern from Mungret and her husband Adrian Cunningham from Dublin have been living in LA for the past two years where she works in Electronic Arts.

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