After the Palisades fire badly damaged Palisades Charter High School, many close to the school’s football program wondered whether it could continue.

The indefinite closure of the campus forced the team to become a fellowship of nomads, traveling to far-flung venues for practices and games.

Twenty-four days after the worst wildfire in L.A. history burned their stadium, members of the Palisades Charter High School football team stretched and twisted on a middle school field in Santa Monica.

To the north, a sickly orange haze hung along the horizon, a reminder of the inferno that had reduced parts of their school to a ragged tangle of charred masonry, metal and wood. About 10 players had lost their homes in the Palisades fire.

During these confusing, grief-ridden days, those close to the

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