Mobile home fire displaces 50 people, injures one

Lina Portman3 weeks ago

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More than 50 people were displaced and one person was injured after five mobile homes caught fire in the Lazy Daze mobile home community in Phoenix Wednesday afternoon.

Crews from the Phoenix Fire Department were dispatched just before 3 p.m. to reports of a structure fire near 43rd Avenue and Van Buren Street, the department said. When firefighters arrived, they saw several mobile homes with flames and smoke coming from inside.

More than 70 people were there.

One person was taken to the hospital with minor burns, authorities said. No firefighters were injured.

The evacuated residents were sent to Moya Primary School for assistance from the Community Assistance Program. Five mobile homes were destroyed and more than 50 people were displaced, authorities said.

The Salt River Project outage map showed an outage in the area as of 3:19 p.m., indicating power lines were down. The map estimates that 98 customers were affected.

The Phoenix Fire Investigation Task Force is investigating the causes of the fires.

Neighboring resident Angel Olivas, 22, said he woke up to a call that trailers were on fire near his home. When he went to the scene, he saw two houses and a car on fire.

“There was definitely a family there that probably inhaled too much smoke,” Olivas said. “They were crying and trying to breathe.”

Lina Portman

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