Fire damages mobile home
GEORGES TWP. – Fire damaged a mobile home along Sutton Road Monday before fire crews extinguished the 8 p.m. blaze. Chief of the Haydentown Volunteer Fire Department Donald Wilson and volunteer firefighters from Fairchance and Smithfield departments overhauled the damage after extinguishing the fire.
The couple that owned in the mobile home, Kelly and Shawn Mceuen, clutched one another as the fire crews worked.
No one was injured, according to the couple, firefighters, family members and neighbors.
The couple and their 6-month-old baby were at Wal-Mart buying diapers when fire broke out inside the residence, said Shawn’s mother, Cindy Mceuen, as she fed a bottle to the couple’s child. The baby was lying in a baby seat in a car and wrapped in warm clothes to protect it from the cold night air. The couple is expecting another child.
Mceuen said Sutton Road neighbor Jackie Bailey, who lives in front of the fire-damaged home, was alerted when her outside dogs began to bark. The fire department was notified and Mceuen called her son via his cell phone to notify him.
“He said, ‘I can’t believe it,'” Cindy Mceuen told a small group of listeners at the scene. “I wrapped my night robe around me and ran down here.”
Mceuen said when she arrived on scene, fire shot through windows on each side of the home. The fire appeared to be coming from the living room/bedroom area, Mceuen said.
Wilson said the mobile home sustained heat and smoke damage, while crews worked to determine the cause of the blaze.