Ashley Hurley said the past few days still don’t feel quite real. 

“I drove by the house a little while ago. I almost drove home there yesterday,” she said Thursday. 

Her home was an apartment in 386 Locust St., a historic house in the Highlands Historic District — its face featuring distinctive gabled dormers that caught the eye of anyone who ever walked or drove past.  

On Monday, the house caught fire, causing untold damage and displacing everyone from the three-family. No one was harmed, but her apartment, which spanned the second and third floors, is ruined. Almost all of Ashley’s possessions are now gone. Her beloved cat is dead.

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