A mobile home was a total loss after a fire Monday evening (Sept. 10) in Sugar Creek Estates in the Murphy part of unincorporated Fenton, Deputy Chief Ken Theiling of the High Ridge Fire Protection District said.
At 8:15 p.m., High Ridge Fire got a call about the fire at the home, which is at the intersection of Gingerroot Drive and Penny Royal Lane. No one was home at the time, he said.
The mobile home was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived, Theiling said.
“Firefighters kept the fire from spreading,” he said. “There was a vehicle next to it and they kept the fire from it.”
The cause of the fire is still under investigation, Theiling said today (Sept. 14).
He said he didn’t know how many people lived in the home or where they are staying now.
Firefighters were on the scene until about 10 p.m. The Saline Valley and Fenton fire protection districts helped with the call.