A fire spread between a mobile home, a camper, and a garage at a Vernon home Friday night.
Patoka Fire Chief Blake Hyde says Eric Hubbert of 124 North Elm was away in St. Louis at the time the fire began. A State Deputy Fire Marshal will review the fire scene on Monday to try to figure out where the fire started. Hyde says there were multiple explosions from propane tanks.
Hyde said the garage had already been damaged in a fire on January 12th. He reports Hubbert was apparently living in the garage at the time. After the fire, the camper was moved in. The mobile home was being used for storage.
A backhoe was brought in to tear apart what remained of the mobile home after the roof collapsed, to completely extinguish the fire.
The fire call came in while firemen were still at the station following an earlier brush fire that burned three to four acres on the McNichol Road north of the power plant on the Kinoka Road east of Patoka. The fire started as a controlled burn that escaped. No buildings were endangered. The fire call came in at six on Friday night.
Sandoval provided mutual aid at both fires.
