A Los Angeles Teen Started a Recovery Fund for Wildfire Victims. Now It’s a Movement

Avery Colvert, 14, never imagined her recovery fund for the teenage victims of the Eaton Fire, one of multiple blazes raging in Los Angeles County, would go viral, but less than 24 hours after its creation, it did just that. Paris Hilton posted about Altadena Girls on her Instagram story. Then Mindy Kaling. Then Charli XCX.

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“Holy cow,” Colvert tells TIME via email. “It’s bonkers here.”

Colvert’s school, Eliot Arts Magnet Academy in Altadena...