BOSTON – Julie Paige never imagined she’d be in this position. “I feel broken, and I’m trying so hard to hold on to the light inside of me,” she said.
The Andover native lost everything from the Eaton Canyon fire in California , which completely destroyed her neighborhood. She’s lived in California for nine years.
“A ball of fire”
Moments before she evacuated, she and a neighbor “looked to the sky, and we saw like a ball of fire, not just smoke and red smoke, but a ball of fire in the not too far distance,” she said.
That was the moment Paige knew she had to evacuate. She grabbed her three-year-old daughter, her dog, some family photos, outfits for two days, and legal documents, and left…