ELK GROVE, Calif. —

Months after the Eaton Fire destroyed his family home, Demitri Camperos, of Altadena, realized he needed to do something.

“I was not in a great spot mentally,” he said on Friday. “For the longest time, I have felt like things are stagnant or that I'm powerless.

It was a documentary he put on for a high school history class about activist Doris Haddock that first sparked the idea: He would walk from Altadena to Paradise, and he would raise money for Eaton Fire victims along the way.

“Those are two sites of some of the most devastating fires in our state's history and although they're really far apart in terms of mileage, which I'm walking, we're closer in spirit than maybe most people might think,” he said.

It took a few months of training and research, as well as

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