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VALRICO, Fla. – A fire at a Valrico<\/a> sober living home has displaced about a dozen men who were working to rebuild their lives through recovery.<\/p>\n The home, operated by Seven Summit Pathways, has served men in early recovery for more than a decade, providing structure, accountability and support for residents trying to maintain sobriety.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Resident Ryan Webster said the house was more than just a place to live.<\/p>\n “This provides me with structure, accountability. These are my brothers here at this house. It\u2019s something very special,” Webster said.<\/p>\n But Friday, a fire<\/a> tore through the home<\/a>, forcing residents out and destroying many of their belongings.<\/p>\n Webster said the loss has been emotionally overwhelming and, at times, tested the sobriety that residents have worked hard to maintain.<\/p>\n “Something like this happens and, honestly, I don’t know why, but my first thought was to go to the liquor store,” Webster said. “Of course I didn\u2019t act on that.”<\/p>\n It shows the power of the sober-living home, which extends beyond its four walls.<\/p>\n Devastating loss <\/p>\n Executive Director Heather Martin said the organization has spent the past several days helping relocate 12 men into temporary housing<\/a> while sorting through the damage to determine what can be salvaged.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s setting in, day four, that truthfully everything is kind of gone. And that\u2019s the hard part,” Martin said.<\/p>\n Residents lost nearly everything in the fire, including clothing, toiletries, computers, photos and personal keepsakes.<\/p>\n Martin said the recovery<\/a> home has long served as a safe and stable environment for men beginning their recovery journey.<\/p>\n “What this house has been for the last 12 years has been a safe haven for men coming into early recovery,” Martin said.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Now, Seven Summit Pathways is working to find a new permanent home so it can continue offering recovery housing and support in the community.<\/p>\n Big picture view:<\/p>\n Despite the devastation, residents say the experience has strengthened their bond and reinforced the support system they\u2019ve built together.<\/p>\n “I think this has brought everybody together and made us stronger,” Webster said.<\/p>\n The Source: This story was gathered from interviews with residents and staff from Seven Summit Pathways and information on the fire from Hillsborough County Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n Hillsborough County<\/a>Fire<\/a>Housing<\/a>House and Home<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VALRICO, Fla. – A fire at a Valrico sober living home has displaced about a dozen men who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[855,47,629,62901,1644,555,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-269036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fire","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-house-home","tag-housing","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vlcsnap-2026-05-12-22h19m09s497.png\")
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