Former teacher Tyanta "Mr. Tigger" Snow speaks with NBC News' Morgan Chesky about his devastating visit to his former teaching school, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, in Altadena, California.

Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty A middle school teacher of 15 years is reaching out to his community amid the fires impacting Altadena and Pasadena Eric Glenn ...

The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic Black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.

Three teachers ... the Altadena school in 1919. “A year after that came the Spanish flu, and the sisters survived that,” Cremer said. She invoked that episode in her school’s history again ...