'Like a fire tornado': Coeur d'Alene family loses California home in Eaton Canyon blaze
The Eaton Canyon fire, near Pasadena, Calif., engulfs the hills just blocks away from the Budge's family home on Tuesday night.
Courtesy of Kim Budge
The Budge family home was "a total loss" when the youngest son returned to check on the property Wednesday morning.
Courtesy of Kim Budge
The Budge family's pool was filled with ash and debris after their home burnt down in the Eaton Canyon fire near Pasadena, Calif. Tuesday night.
Courtesy of Kim Budge
COEUR d’ALENE — When the first flames of what would become southern California’s Eaton Canyon Fire sparked Tuesday night, Kim Budge couldn’t have guessed that her home would be destroyed.
“We started packing as soon as we saw the fire,” Budge said. “We knew what was happening in the Palisades, and the possibility of embers being thrown around ... but I was still thinking in the back of my mind how fires have never really come off the hills before.”
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