“Windblown fires continue to claim other homes in the community and bring the fires nearer,” she said by email.

Jennifer Ventress, a teacher at Pacoima Middle School who lives in Santa Clarita — near the Hurst first in Sylmar — said she stayed home Wednesday despite the school being open.

The mistreatment began with her first adoptive family, Michael and Kristine Barnett, who alleged that Natalia was older than she said she was.

Natalia said Cynthia told her, “Maybe this is God’s way of saying you can move to the U.K.,” so that she could be with her boyfriend, Neil.

Letby, from Hereford, is serving 15 whole-life orders after she was convicted at Manchester Crown Court of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, with two attempts on one of her victims, between June 2015 and June 2016 at the Countess of Chester Hospital.