“Nunca en un millón de años imaginé la posibilidad de sufrir un incendio en mi hogar. Cuando veía cómo el edificio ardía en llamas, pensé: ‘Bueno, ¿y ahora qué?” Gabriela never thought she would experience a home fire until she received that phone call. She was at work when her brother called to tell her that their home was on fire and they were losing everything. Gabriela remembers standing there watching everything she owned burn in flames and thinking about how she would explain what happened to her daughter: “¿Cómo iba a explicarle esta tremenda pérdida a mi hija que afortunadamente estaba en la guardería en ese momento? No sabía qué hacer a continuación y mucho menos pensar en las palabras que necesitaba usar para asegurarle que íbamos a estar bien." Thankfully, her daughter was at daycare at the time of the fire. Gabriela and many of her neighbors stayed at a Red Cross shelter in the following weeks. RedCrossIL volunteers helped replace Gabriela’s daughter’s medication, ensure...