FRANKLIN — A Franklin family is starting the school year in a hotel after a fire damaged their home Sunday morning.

Amber Cerasoli told TMJ4 News she was getting her 3-year-old dressed when her neighbor rushed inside.

“All of a sudden, my neighbor runs into my house screaming, ‘Fire, fire, get out’,” Cerasoli said. “My attic was on fire. I got the kids out. Got the dogs out.”

She said firefighters arrived quickly and contained the blaze, but not before it spread through the upstairs of the house.

“Just in utter shock,” she said. “This is all we have, this is everything.”

Cerasoli, a lifelong teacher, said the timing has made the fire especially difficult.

With the first day of school two days away, among the many things they lost were her children’s clothes, packed lunches, and first

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