Colleton County Fire-Rescue

5/20/2010

Stations 1, 19, 26 and 27 responded to a structure fire at 34 Jared Street Thursday morning 20-May at 0817. Engine 1 arrived to find light smoke coming from several windows in the singlewide mobile home. Upon inspection, firefighters found the fire was confined to a small bedroom at the “D” side of the structure. Apparently an electrical short in a wall outlet caused the fire which spread from the outlet to an adjacent bed. The home owner used several five gallon buckets of water to douse the flames before firefighters arrived. The damage was contained to the bedroom, with light smoke damage in the remainder of the mobile home. No one was injured in the incident.  Firefighters removed the burned debris from the home. Engine 1 handled the incident. The other units were cancelled.

Engine 1, Engine 19, Tender 1, Tender 19, Tender 26, Medic 27, Battalion 1 and Car 12 responded. Battalion Chief Dan Barb served as Incident Commander.