Two alarm fire destroys trailer and truck at Lakeside Mobile Home Park
A fire destroyed a trailer and partially melted three others at the Lakeside Mobile Home Park in East Wareham Sunday night.
No one was injured in the fire, according to Onset firefighter Rachel Rawlings.
The two-alarm fire, which broke out shortly after 8:30 p.m., spread to three trailers at the park, located at 3030 Cranberry Highway. The trailer on lot 12 was completely destroyed and the trailer on lot 34 suffered significant damage. A truck parked between the two was also lost, according to Onset Fire Captain Howard Andersen. The trailers at lots 32, across from lot 12, and 36, next to lot 34, were also partially melted.
Firefighters from Wareham, Bourne and Onset were on the scene and all fires were knocked down by 9:10 p.m., but firefighters were still on the scene working in the park until 2 a.m.
"Once the flames are extinguished, we have to spray everything down that is still smoldering," Andersen said.
"There was nothing -- no smoke, no smell, and then just burst into flames," neighbor Donna Rose said. "It was amazing no one was hurt."
Rose lives across the street from lot 34. She said one of the residents of lot 34 was sleeping inside his trailer when the fire erupted. She said one of his girls ran from next door, where she was baking a cake, to get him out.
"Someone's birthday -- I can't even think straight, I'm so tired," Rose said.
Lots 12, 34, and 36 are without power. Lot 36 resident John Corbett said "it was like a movie."
"I actually saw [the truck] blow off the ground, and then come back down," Corbett said. "I was like, 'Oh, my God, this is real.'"
Corbett said local charitable organization Turning Point was helping the families in need.
Turning Point Volunteer Carol Fitzpatrick said the families from lots 12 and 34 had already come to the organization for help.
"They needed help with food and clothing, and we were able to help them with that," Fitzpatrick said. "They essentially lost everything ... [but] that's all they asked for, right now."
Fitzpatrick said the Red Cross was assisting the families with housing, and that members of the community could approach the families privately, if they wanted to help.
Rose and Corbett also pointed out a sinkhole that developed Sunday night. The hole is not large, but Rose and Corbett are concerned about it, nonetheless.
"It's gotten bigger since last night," Rose remarked.
As of Tuesday, the cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to Captain Andersen.
Wareham Week will update this story as more information becomes available.