Lana Galaforo, who witnessed the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, now faces her own loss as wildfires destroy her home in Altadena.
NEW ORLEANS — A Northshore woman who watched so many friends lose their homes in Hurricane Katrina when she was in junior high is now experiencing it herself.
Lana Galaforo, only in her early 30s, says she has been living her dream in paradise for the last three years in Southern California. The Hammond transplant works in the film industry as a painter on reality shows. She and several others rent rooms in an 1890s home in Altadena. Recently, she was working on a set in Georgia when her partner Facetimed her.
“She told me that she was hearing helicopters around, but she didn’t see any fire, and we had no idea that the fire could even come to us. Then the power had went out and I was …
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