When Hannah Hedrick was 11 years old, her hometown of Montecito was devastated by the 2018 mudslides and debris flow following the Thomas Fire.
As her family tried to escape, their car started sinking in the mud and they had to wait in their home with no running water or electricity before the National Guard came to their rescue.
“Everything that I knew was kind of displaced,” Hedrick said. “I had to go to school at (Santa Barbara) City College in tents, and then every single time it rained we had to evacuate again and go to neighboring schools. I was obviously displaced from my house for a really long time. It was just a very scary time.”…