Fire at modular home probed
A fire early Wednesday morning inside an abandoned double-wide modular home is considered suspicious and is being investigated, an official with the Somerton/Cocopah Fire Department said.
According to information provided by Fire Chief Paul De Anda, at approximately 5:45 a.m., firefighters responded to 3577 Lorenza Street, at the Orange Grove Trailer Park, for a report of a modular home on fire.
The response was a request for mutual aid from the Rural/Metro Fire Department, which had initially responded with three engines, an ambulance and a Battalion Chief.
When Somerton/Cocopah firefighters arrived on scene they found the entire underside of the modular home engulfed in flames.
While walking around the exterior of the home, the SCFD captain on scene observed that both doors of the residence were open and two windows had been broken. He also closed one opening into the residence in an attempt to keep the fire from spreading to the interior.
“The residence was unoccupied and was not connected to gas or electrical utilities,” DeAnda wrote.
SCFD firefighters pulled three pre-connected fire hoses and began spraying down the main body of the fire, which was the undercarriage of the modular home.
Once the main body of the fire was knocked down, Rural Metro firefighters entered the residence and extinguished any remaining fires in the interior of the residence.
The fire was extinguished in 45 minutes. Because there were no electrical or gas utilities on in the residence and the doors were open, the fire is considered suspicious at this time.