By The Santa Clarita Valley Signal
While the Child & Family Center has had to evacuate twice in the past week, due to the two “Pointe Fires” that have occurred in the Centre Pointe area, the center has also made sure to help neighbors in need.
Those neighbors included children from the Notre Dame Children’s Academy and Creative Years Infant Center & Preschool.
“Last week, we had a massive fire that filled our large, 37,000-square-feet campus. We had smoke inside. We evacuated everyone safely, and we had hoped that that would be the end of it. (Tuesday), the same thing occurred, and even though the fire wasn’t nearly as big, we could see the flames and smell the smoke,” said Nikki Buckstead, president and CEO of the Child & Family Center. “We had about 170 people on campus, and we were able to get everybody out in under 10 minutes.”