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Friday, February 13, 2009 10:06 AM Firefighters respond to mobile home blazes By Antonio Velarde | Times Staff Writer Two empty mobile homes being used for storage were destroyed in a blaze Thursday afternoon in Wilson County, said Roger Godwin, chief of the Black Creek Volunteer Fire Department. The Black Creek, Polly Watson and Crossroads volunteer fire departments responded after 4:30 p.m. to 7174 Gourd Branch Road near Lucama in response to a structure fire. There they found two empty mobile homes behind a house engulfed in flames, Godwin said. The blazes, which were under control within about 15 minutes, destroyed the two mobile homes, which were unoccupied and being used by the owner as storage. He said firefighters were unsure what had caused the fire. Ray Thompson, 57, of 7209 Gourd Branch Road, said he owned the home, which he rented out, and the two mobile homes, which he had purchased for scrap metal for his business, Kanduit Construction. Thompson, who also owns a few other mobile homes, said he had started a small fire near one of the mobile homes a day or so earlier and thought he had extinguished it. He said that on Thursday, he had set a box of clothes on the ground not far from the home, checking before he put them down whether there were any ashes still smoldering, and then left for a while. Thompson said his uncle then called him later and told him he saw smoke coming from the property. Thompson said he arrived to find the mobile homes on fire. He said the homes were not too much of a loss to him, and that hopefully he will still be able to use them for scrap. "I didn't lose anything," he said. avelarde@wilsontimes.com | 265-7868 |
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