Beloved North Fork Animal Shelter Worker Needs Help After Fire

PECONIC, NY — A woman who has dedicated her life to helping homeless pets is now in need of help after losing her own home to a raging fire.

Gabrielle Stroup from the North Fork Animal Welfare League in Peconic created a GoFundMe page, "Help Grace and Family Recover From Fire" to help her longtime colleague and friend Grace Miglionico.

"I am raising money for Grace Miglionico, a beloved employee at North Fork Animal Welfare League. On Friday, June 25, there was an electrical fire at her residence in Holtsville," she wrote. "The garage, with an attached cottage on the property, is where Grace's son, daughter-in-law with lupus and two children lived. It was completely destroyed by the fire and must be torn down."

All the contents within the cottage including clothes, furniture, bedding, appliances, and personal property are gone; the home does not have running water or working toilets, Stoup said.

Miglionico's daughter-in-law is currently in Stony Brook Hospital with first and second-degree burns, Stroup said.

"Please donate whatever you can to help this family. Thank you so very much," she said.

According to the Holtsville Fire Department, the blaze broke out on Saturday at 5 p.m. at the residence on Waverly Avenue.

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