Crews extinguish a blaze that destroyed Rochester mobile home, shop. / Courtesy photo by West Thurston Regional Fire Authority.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Investigators are looking into the cause of a fire in a Rochester mobile home park that displaced a father, his young daughter and two other adults early this morning.
“One of the occupants woke up and saw a glow outside,” Chief Robert Scott said. “He alerted everyone, got everyone up and by then the smoke was in their hallway.”
Crews responding just before 5 a.m. to the area at 185th Avenue Southwest near Marble Street found the single-wide mobile home fully involved in flames, according to West Thurston Regional Fire Authority.
The fire spread, also destroying a shop and heavily damaging a carport and two vehicles parked there, according to Scott.
The child, who Scott said is 4 or 5 years old, was evaluated for smoke inhalation. Nobody else was injured.
The cause is as yet unknown, but the investigation is focusing on a point of origin outside the structure, Scott said.
A total of 25 firefighters from five departments responded.
Scott said it was in the Tanglewood Mobile Home Park. An adjacent mobile home less than 20 feet away sustained some damage from the fire as well, he said.
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