Madras mother, child escape burning mobile home
A Madras woman and her child escaped an early-morning fire Sunday that heavily damaged their mobile home, authorities said.
Jefferson County Fire District No. 1 crews were dispatched around 3:20 a.m. to the fire in a space at the Willow Creek Mobile Home Park on Northwest B Street, Captain Kaey Skaar said.
They arrived to find fire engulfing the rear of the home and threatening two neighbors’s homes, Lt. Kirk Hagman said. Only one had minor damage, some scorched paint, he added.
Hagman said the resident “believes she saw a power surge, for lack of a better term. And when she got up to investigate, she saw smoke and a little bit of fire coming out of an outlet plug” of the home, built in the mid-’70s.
The mother and child got out without injury and she called 911. Hagman said she “did exactly the right things.”
The cause of the fire was under investigation. Three engines, nine volunteers and four staff firefighters responded to the blaze, with mutual aid assistance from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and Jefferson County EMS.
Hagman said the Red Cross was not called in, as the residents had family to assist them.
The fire burned about the back 25 percent of the 70-foot mobile home and caused “significant smoke damage” elsewhere, Hagman said. Losses were estimated at $1,000 to the contents and $1,200 to the structure.
