With a toddler at home and another on the way, Pascucci stepped into uniform-and straight into the fire zone.
LOS ANGELES – Just three days after raising her right hand and swearing into the California State Guard , Christina Pascucci was standing in the middle of a disaster zone.
The veteran journalist and Los Angeles native didn’t expect to be activated so quickly. But when flames tore through the Palisades in early January, Pascucci-who had signed on to serve in a volunteer communications role-was called into duty. Pregnant, with a toddler at home and a respirator strapped to her face, she stepped forward without hesitation…