Fire Engulfs Three Homes in Christmas Tree Trailer Park

LEONARDTOWN - 12/31/2008

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Fire officials are investigating a two-alarm fire that engulfed three mobile homes in the Christmas Tree Trailer Park in Leonardtown on Dec. 31. The fire broke out around 1:32 a.m., in the 22000 block of Cartwright Road. The occupant of one of the mobile homes discovered the blaze and was able safely evacuate the home. Fifty firefighters from Leonardtown, Hollywood, Valley Lee, Bay District and Avenue all helped to battle the blaze. It took firefighters about 30 minutes to bring the fire under control. The cause of the fire appears to be accidental. The fire was attributed to a woodstove. Damage to all three homes rings in at $30,000. No injuries were reported.

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mom-of-3 12/31/2008 at 12:13 PM Woodstove in a trailer?? This is definately a horrible tragedy and I feel terrible for the families that this affected. Losing everything would be devastating. But a woodstove in a trailer?? Trailer's can be completely destroyed by a fire in as little as 8 minutes...there's no way I'd even burn a candle in one of those death traps. Reply to This Comment

Free_Falling 1/6/2009 at 12:25 AM Reply to mom-of-3: These stories are bull I know what really happened. I'm friends with the family. And the male who coincidentally survived the fire after "discovering" the balze (the same blaze that supposedly engulfed the trailer in 7 minutes and the same man who was apparently "asleep" at the time it caught on fire.... had absolutely nothing of his in the trailer save some clothes and a laptop that appears to be missing anyway. The real people who are at a loss are the mother and her three kids. One of which was pregnant and lost all her baby stuff (and is due in march) and the eldest who had recently moved in and had EVERYTHING in her room which coincidentally is the one that is completely gone. The lost more then 30,000 dollars worth of stuff and I swear if the man who "lost everything" receives any of the money from their losses I will flip a lid

Free_Falling 1/6/2009 at 12:29 AM Reply to mom-of-3: woodstove in a trailer yes...a woodstove in the trialer...a woodstove he checked religiously....ALL THE TIME.....the same man who NEVER slept at night. And who told us that wiring started it.... And coincidentally this happened not twelve hours of the mother being told she had 30 days to get whatever she wanted out of the trailer by a judge and the man's daughter being taken away from him..... Coincidence???? Too bad these newspapers don't have the real story..... He lost nothing...My friend...my family lost everything.

Free_Falling 1/6/2009 at 12:31 AM Reply to mom-of-3: burnt room oh yea...that room you see right there...completely gone...is the eldest daughters room...no where near the stove.....the one that is completely burnt like i siad....ok i think im done now...

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