Former resident Andrew Friske this week said he feels lucky his family wasn’t hurt in an Aug. 18 landslide in Sitka that crushed his house and claimed the lives of three men he knew.

Friske is a 1996 Haines High School graduate and Mount Edgecumbe High School principal whose parents, Terry and Sylvia Friske, taught school in Haines. Since April, Friske and his parents have been building a duplex in the Kramer Avenue subdivision they…