Elizabeth Fitzpatrick

Elizabeth Fitzpatrick is a fifth grade special education teacher at Pahoa Elementary School on Hawaii Island. She has taught special education for seven years. She and her husband, Tim, also a teacher, live with their daughter, Dora, in Pahoa.
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The unfolding disaster on the Big Island was slow-moving enough to allow time for this evacuating schoolteacher to have an epiphany.