A fire Tuesday destroyed Fred Anderson Sr.’s dream of bringing his wife home from a Sitka hospital.

Linda Anderson, his wife of 43 years, is suffering from advanced lung cancer and recently expressed interest in returning to the home the couple built together in Mosquito Lake’s Four Winds subdivision, Anderson said. He’d hauled building material there for an addition to the frame and trailer structure Monday.

“Her wish was to come home, but she won’t…