Juan Villegas returned to Eliot Arts Magnet Academy, his former school, after fire ravaged his community. Despite some parts of the school standing, much of the campus was destroyed. As a lead gardener for the district, Villegas was tasked with overseeing cleanup efforts to support the return of 14,000 students to school. The fires hit personally for him; he faced the recent death of his father and the loss of his in-laws' home, deepening the tragedy surrounding the destruction of his childhood school.
That's when it hit me, I broke down, and tears streamed down my face. I've never dealt with loss like this before.
I was in shock. It took me back to when I started at Eliot - this was my first school here in America and now the whole place was gone.
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