Neighbors thankful for speedy response to New Middletown fire
A vacant trailer in New Middletown was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters received the call. Neighbors tell 21 News they heard an explosion and are grateful crews arrived when they did.
Multiple departments battled a blaze at the Camelot Mobile Home Park along State Route 170 just south of East Middletown Road around 4:30 p.m. Monday.
Cell phone video captures the aftermath of some scary moments for New Middletown residents in the mobile home park.
"Just pray yours doesn't burn with it," said neighbor Dan Bussey.
"It was a loud explosion that's all we heard and then I ran to the window and saw it was in flames," described Bussey.
Crews first arriving on scene reported small explosions coming from inside the trailer.
Fire Chief Curt Brown says the person who used to own the mobile home is out of town. Brown described the trailer as vacant.
Charred studs and melted siding are all that's left of the trailer.
"The extent of the damage, its undetermined as to what caused it," said New Middletown Volunteer Fire Chief Curt Brown.
Another mystery- what made the explosive sound.
"There's all kinds of stuff that goes off inside of a fire, so hard to tell what it was. There's no arsenal, nothing we could find inside," stated Brown.
Neighbors are just thankful firefighters from New Middletown, Springfield and Poland arrived quickly.
Bussey said "If it was worse, it could have caught the others beside it on fire and then the domino effect."