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.

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 ...

As communities rebuild across California after January's fires, one NCAT professor sheds light on ongoing concerns in Altadena ...

Some worry that as the community rebuilds, it will lose its ties to that history ... hub for the Black middle class. So far, it has destroyed 7,000 structures in Altadena, a town of 40,000 ...

Of the school’s 100 families, 26 have lost their homes. Three teachers ... the Altadena school in 1919. “A year after that came the Spanish flu, and the sisters survived that,” Cremer said. She ...