Firefighters battle flames engulfing a home at 40 Gary St. in the Oxford Pines Regency Mobile Home Park in Oxford early Thursday morning. Two of the three people who escaped the home were taken to a hospital with injuries, Deputy Fire Chief Paul Hewey said.
OXFORD — A fire that destroyed a mobile home early Thursday morning sent two of the three occupants to the hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, a fire official said.
Deputy Fire Chief Paul Hewey said the fire at 40 Gary St. in Oxford Pines Regency Mobile Home Park was reported at about 12:30 a.m. He said he didn’t know the name of the homeowner nor the specific injuries of those in the house at the time.
“I do know that there were three people in the house, and that they all got out,” Hewey said. “Two of them were injured and had to be taken to (Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway) for nonlife-threatening injuries.”
According to online town tax records, the property belongs to Charles Ordway of Oxford.
Hewey said firefighters from Norway, Mechanic Falls and South Paris assisted.
“It was a hard-fought fire,” Hewey said. “Between the wind and the low temperatures, it took us around three hours to completely knock it down.”
He said a crew with the Oxford Fire Department was nearby responding to a furnace malfunction when they received the call.
“It didn’t take us long to get there at all,” he said.
Hewey said the State Fire Marshal’s office would investigate the cause.
Firefighters work Thursday morning to extinguish a fire at 40 Gary St. in Oxford. They were called to the scene off Skeetfield Road about 12:30 a.m.Firefighters work Thursday morning to extinguish a fire at 40 Gary St. in Oxford. They were called to the scene off Skeetfield Road about 12:30 a.m.Firefighters work Thursday morning to extinguish a fire at 40 Gary St. in Oxford. They were called to the scene off Skeetfield Road about 12:30 a.m.
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