The hits keep on coming for a beloved grandfather who lost his wife to a disease two years ago, now his home, in the Baltimore marina fire that destroyed two boats.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Baltimore Fire Department was called into action to battle a fast-moving blaze that torched two 55-foot vessels at the Anchorage Marina in Canton.
Fire crews were able to corral the flames and limit the damage to the two docked boats, but not before one sank and the other suffered extensive damage.
No injuries were reported; however, the damage was not limited to just the boats.
Bill Zwingelberg, who lost his wife in 2022 after a battle with Parkinson’s, moved from South Dakota to Baltimore to live on a boat with his forever friend, Ragnar (also known as Rags), a callback to better days when the couple would take to the seas and sail up and down the East Coast, according to his granddaughter.
“Grandpa and grandma used to own a boat and sail all over from Maine to the Bahamas in their younger years, and I think it was a way for him to reconnect with her while also being closer to his East Coast family,” she said.