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Rio Grande City woman homeless after fire rips through her home
Posted: 12.30.2012 at 11:48 PM
Katie Lopez

Katie Lopez is a reporter for Action 4 News.

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“It’s just…it’s something I will never forget,” Annabel Cavazos said.
           
She and her sister Antonia Franco are heartbroken.
           
The home the sisters shared with their parents for many years caught fire early Saturday morning.
           
All that remains of the home is charred wood and ash.

"I will always have it in my head,” Cavazos said. “I didn't want to come and see it. I've been really depressed and this hurts more."

Cavazos did not live in the home anymore—just her sister Franco.

She was too distraught to speak on camera---but Cavazos explained what the house meant to the family.

"Nothing will ever bring back what was lost. The pictures, memories....we won't have any now."

While Cavazos is focused on memories, her sister is worried about something else—where she is going to live. 

"She's very sad. There is no way we can fix the house back because she only gets $700 a month. That's all they have."

As Cavazos and Franco sift through the rubble that was once their beloved family home…they live in the past and try to remember the good times before it was taken away.

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