“Seeing her and how that could have happened to anyone, it made me think about people who probably didn't have relatives to go stay with, people who got displaced. These floods lasted quite a while.” - student Shekainah Mendis, 2016 Sri Lanka floods

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“We ended up having a relative move in with us for a while because of how high the water levels were. I could see how difficult that was for her because almost her whole life is in that house, and she had no access to it.”

“My brother and my mom were packing up our stuff. My dad went out and set up a bunch of sprinklers to make sure everything was wet while they waited for the fire department to show up.” - student Diego Machado, 2021 Juniper Ridge Fire

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“The first thing I did was call my brother to see if they had seen it. He told me that it struck thirty or fourty metres from our backyard, and everything around it caught fire immediately. We live right at the bottom of the neighbourhood, right against a big parkland, which gets quite dry.”

“We do have a couple of neighbours that are older and their family lives far away and they're living on their own. I wanted to make sure that if they needed any help with anything, I could be there for them.” - Kamloops resident Remy Machado, 2021 Juniper Ridge fire

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“Talk about their experiences, how they felt, and just be able to have that communication with other people. I tried to talk with all of my neighbours about it and make sure that they were okay, seeing if they needed anything, even if it was just somebody to talk to.”

"So the fact that you’re not able to confirm right then and there just heightened the anxiety around the flooding.” - student Sylvia Ndirangu, 2024 Kenya-Tanzania floods

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"The fact that I saw something like this happening close to home made it more terrifying. I began to think, you never know who was there when the person was taking the video. It could have been a family member. It could have been anybody."

So the fact that you’re not able to confirm right then and there just heightened the anxiety around the flooding.” - student Sylvia Ndirangu, 2024 Kenya-Tanzania floods

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