By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fire that broke out in a Grand Mound mobile home last night.
Firefighters called about 11 p.m. to the 20300 block of Old Highway 99 Southwest found the backside of the uninhabited single-wide mobile home burning, according to West Thurston Regional Fire Authority.
About a dozen firefighters from four agencies quickly brought the flames under control, Fire Chief Robert Scott said this morning.
He estimated about one-quarter of the structure was damaged.
The mobile home is adjacent to the old Grand Mound Motel, he said.
Nobody was living there and it appeared someone was in the process of tearing it apart, Scott said.
There was no power service to the structure, making it a suspicious fire, according to Scott.
The cause is being looked into by the sheriff’s office and West Thurston fire investigators.
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