"I'm sorry for your loss," a woman, as if at a funeral, whispered to Sanchez as she passed. "I don't have any more tears to cry," said Sanchez, her voice muffled by a face mask to protect her from smoke. "I cried all last night. My heart is broken. Our life savings, everything is gone. We don't know where to start. What do I need? I need everything."
Sanchez is an education site coordinator at Willard Elementary School in Pasadena. She bought her house on a corner lot from a retired schoolteacher in 2018 and lived there with five adults, two children, ages 5 and 12, chickens, roosters, 10 cats she was fostering, and two Rottweilers.
She spotted the approaching fury as she was leaving school at 6:20 p.m. on Tuesday. 'I saw sparks in Eaton Canyon,' she said. 'I heard firetrucks.' The Eaton fire chased her and her family and menagerie of pets from the home about 3 a.m. Wednesday.
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