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The Key West community truly rallied together when one of its own needed it the most.
Alelia Butler s life changed forever roughly two years ago when her modest mobile home at 813 Galveston Lane was destroyed in a fire in the middle of the night on Jan. 29, 2019. The elderly, lifelong Key West resident barely got out alive and she lost all of her belongings and was forced to move in with family. She had no insurance to replace the home. I was just devastated, Butler, 76, told The Key West Citizen. I didn t know what I was going to do.
But the community quickly responded with a group of locals, led by Key West Fire Department Capt. Jason Barroso, and the generous donations of many area business owners and contractors to build her a new free-standing Conch house.