Photos: L.A.’s Crisis Response Team comforts the relatives of victims
L.A.’s Crisis Response Team helps an unidentified woman outside a home in Wilmington where seven people were found dead. The volunteer service is designed to comfort those the police usually pay the least attention to: “surviving victims,” the family and friends who have to go on with their lives after disaster strikes.
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)Joan Davis, center, and Barbara de Lima confer before talking to the family of the victims of a fatal car accident in Wilmington. Davis says it’s gratifying to help people when they’re at their most vulnerable.
(Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)Michelle Paravicini, center, consoles a family member of a person killed in a car accident in Wilmington. Though they’re right in the middle of everything, team members prefer to disappear into the background. And they do.
(Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)