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Mouseketeer Annette Funicello Injured In House Fire

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Former Disney Mouseketeer Annette Funicello has suffered smoke inhalation from a fire that badly damaged her Los Angeles home, but her former husband says she wasn't seriously injured.

   The blaze Thursday in Encino was doused in less than a half-hour.

   Fire spokesman Erik Scott says two women -- one of them in a wheelchair -- and a man were hospitalized for possible smoke inhalation and are in good condition.

   Their names weren't released, but Funicello's ex-husband, Jack Gilardi, says the 68-year-old actress was at home with her current husband and a nurse. Funicello has multiple sclerosis.

   Gilardi says they were exposed to smoke but will recover.

   Funicello was a Mouseketeer on TV's "Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s and had a singing and acting career that included a series of beach movies.

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