Fire destroys mobile home
Family of 6 displaced

By Bruce Whetten

Douglas Dispatch
Published/Last Modified on Sunday, April 29, 2012 4:50 PM MDT


A Pirtleville family of six had their lives turned upside down Sunday when a fire destroyed their rented mobile home.


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Emergency crews from Douglas, Pirtleville and Sunnyside were called to the fire around 8:30 a.m. at West Palm Ave. and North Camino Pinon.

When emergency officials arrived on the scene they found the front of the trailer engulfed in flames.

It took crews just a few minutes to knock down the flames but in that time the damage to the single wide mobile home was extensive.

Pirtleville Fire Chief Tony Vaca and Douglas Fire Chief Mario Novoa both said later the trailer was a “total loss”.

The mobile home was being lived in by a single mother and her five kids who were checked out at the scene by local paramedics and released.

The Red Cross from Sierra Vista was called in to help the family.

Chief Vaca would later confirm the fire started outside of the mobile home and then moved to the trailer.

Six fire trucks, two ambulances and two support vehicles were on the scene to battle the blaze.

It is not known if the landlord had insurance on the mobile home.

 

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Comments

    Really wrote on May 10, 2012 1:21 AM:

    " A family is displaced and the comments are revolving around cleaning Pirtleville yards, glad everyone can focus in what's important here. Really?!? "

    Get Serious wrote on May 8, 2012 9:39 PM:

    " Why should anyone have to tell you to clean up your property. Hope you don't wait for someone to direct you to flush your toilet too. "

    Enforce wrote on May 1, 2012 8:54 PM:

    " Mike Ortega is the County Manager why doesn't he do something about cleaning up Pirtleville? He should direct county people to enforce cleaning Pirtleville. It is a community that is ignored completely by the county. "

    Not Surprised wrote on Apr 29, 2012 6:49 PM:

    " Pirtleville is dirty and everyone does what they want on their property. Trash, junk and old cars are all over the place. The county supervisors are to blame. No one has their property up to code. It used to be a nice community but people don't take pride. Too many renters and absentee landlords that only care about getting their money and not improving the [property. "

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