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Post‐disaster Formation Of Sub‐groups Based On Impact Experience: Parents Of Injured Vs. Deceased ChildrenMurphy, Arthur D.; Jones, Eric C.; Norris, Fran H.; Prigerson, Holly G.Networks and CultureSocial Support, Mexico, Resilience, Disaster Response, Community Networks, Coping StrategiesSAT.AM2Following a disaster, social support can be high, but then typically dissipates and is even accompanied by conflict as resources wither and people are expectedto return to some sense of normalcy. Although social support declines, it does not cease to exist—but may coalesce in subgroups. In the case of a day care firein Hermosillo, Mexico in June 2009, many parents lost children while the children of others were injured. We interviewed 227 parents and caretakers, solicitingfrom each of them up to seven names (and several attributes) of other parents/caretakers. Most of the parents and caretaking grandparents did not knoweach other or even know of each other before the fire. Nine months after the fire, almost everyone knows at least someone else who had a child at thedaycare, but clear (although moderately interconnected) subgroups have formed of bereaved parents, and of parents of injured/burned children.