House fire displaces owner and two tenants; all were 'like family'

WRANGELL - They had lived in the same house at 8.5-Mile Zimovia Highway since 2019, with Tim and Shei Gillen renting the downstairs apartment from homeowner Bruce Levine. All three lost their home and just about everything they owned in a fire Monday afternoon, April 27.

Levine also lost his two dogs, and the Gillens lost two cats in the fire but were able to save their three dogs. They buried the cats last week.

Levine suffered burns on his hands and face and was hospitalized a couple of days; he was released April 29. The Gillens were not injured.

"Bruce is like family to us," Shei Gillen sa...

 
 

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