Fire destroys mobile home, two displaced
By Brandon Davis
Published in News on April 11, 2017 12:27 PM
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A fully involved structure fire spreads to a neighboring trailer as fire departments arrive on scene at 105 Curlew St. Tuesday morning.
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Firefighters from El-Roy, New Hope, Arrington and Seven Springs departments prepare to fight a fire that destroyed a trailer and a vehicle and damaged another vacant trailer on Curlew Street late Tuesday morning.
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The residents of 105 Curlew St. watch in disbelief as the fire that destroyed their home Tuesday morning is extinguished. El-Roy, New Hope, Arrington and Seven Springs fire departments worked to prevent the fire from spreading and causing nearby propane tanks to explode.
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A neighbor holds a cat that escaped the fire that destroyed a trailer Tuesday morning.
Two men watched their mobile home burn down Tuesday morning off of Dallas Road.
Tyshone Turner, 23, and Tye Johnson, 20, saw the fire start at their home, located at 105 Curlew St., just after 10 a.m.
Turner said he saw a broken TV on the porch burning, and he said he called the fire department.
The TV was not plugged into any electric outlet.
"We just moved here, not even two months ago," he said. Turner said he and Johnson are the only people who lived in the home.
New Hope, Arrington, El-Roy and Seven Springs fire departments arrived after a call at 10:23 a.m. Firemen put the fire out after 30 minutes of burning.
The mobile home is a total loss.
El-Roy Fire Chief Steven Mozingo said the cause of the fire and location in which it started is unknown at this time.
"We're still working on how it happened," he said.
Firemen assessed a propane tank outside the home, which released excess pressure after the tank's vent popped off
"It got hot and was doing what it is supposed to do," Mozingo said.
The front of a mobile home at 107 Curlew St. was damaged from the fire, but Mozingo said the home was vacant.
He said the fire departments are waiting for the Wayne County Office of Emergency Services to investigate the incident further to determine the cause.