Egan: When a house burned down, a whole street shone bright

Close to midnight on Nov. 9, fire began to smoulder in a ground-floor wall at 14 Gould St., a narrow, steeply pitched-roof house where the Hill family lived for about 30 years.
The house held three people, including six-year-old Noah, a dog named Daisy, cats George and Izzy, and a couple of turtles with the temporary handles of Jack and Frost. It is the only house Rachel Hill, 26, Noah’s mother, has ever lived in and that night, she was steps away in the heated garage, reorganizing storage