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A fire on Sunday afternoon tore through a home on Peterson Street, leaving it heavily damaged and unoccupied as of Monday, according to the Ketchikan Fire Department s acting fire chief.
All people living in the building escaped unharmed, but a dog and a cat are believed to have perished in the fire.
Multiple people called to report the fire on Sunday afternoon, said Acting Fire Chief Scott Brainard, including Sonya Skan, the only resident who was home when the fire broke out.
In a Monday evening phone interview with the Daily News, Skan, a former Ketchikan School Board member, said she lived at the home with her husband, Norman Skan and two grandkids. She had just awoken from a nap on Sunday when she noticed smoke.