"Both the loss and uncertainty surrounding wildfires are traumatic, Jeff Katzman, a Connecticut-based psychiatrist who grew up in Pacific Palisades, California, told Axios.

'There is the lingering, not knowing status of what happened,' he said. 'There's the experience of loss of an entire community that has generations of meaning.'"

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/12/california-wildfires-loss-mental-health

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