New Home Rises from the Ashes

A family moved into Habitat-Apopka's latest home in December

Jimmy Lee Ezell's family is keeping his dream alive. He and his wife, Lorine, had lived in a wooden home in a South Apopka neighborhood for almost half a century. The blender for Deep South food manufacturers and his wife had worked hard to raise a family in a small shotgun house. The lot they owned next door provided room to play. In 2006, six people still were living in the home on Easter Sunday. That's the night an electrical fire flared up. The brittle wood was no match for the flames, and the house burned to the ground.

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