Thursday, 4:30 PM
Couple homeless after Cape Cod blaze
By Steven Bagley, Globe Correspondent
Two Cape Cod residents are living in a motel today after their house was destroyed by a fire.
Elizabeth and Bruce Hodgkins, who had lived in a house on Pond Street in Dennis for three years, were left homeless after the one-alarm fire at about 1:15 p.m. yesterday.
A neighbor called the fire department, then tried to put the blaze out with a garden hose, the Dennis fire department said.
But the single-story house was completely destroyed, along with everything inside it except some of Elizabeth Hodgkins' jewelry, said the couple's landlord, Bill Brodeur. He estimated the house was worth more than $200,000.
The local Moose lodge is organizing a fund drive to get the family back on their feet, he said.
The Red Cross will pay for the couple to stay at the Gull Wing Suites Motel for a couple of days, a Red Cross spokeswoman said.
