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Byrneville Brush Fire Ends With A Search For A Body
December 8, 2008
A Sunday afternoon brush fire in Byrneville ended with an abandoned trailer destroyed and the search for a possible body.
Area fire departments were called to the brush fire in the 1300 block of McBride Road just after 1:00 Sunday afternoon. Officials say the resident of a double-wide mobile home told them that the brush fire started accidentally when he was burning a box in a barrel. The fire quickly spread, destroying an abandoned single-wide mobile home about 100 yards away.
After the mobile home fire was extinguished, a neighbor told firemen that a homeless man would sometimes sleep in the trailer. Concerned that the man might have been in the trailer at the time of the fire, firemen conducted two complete searches of the trailer debris, but they were unable to locate any sign of a body.
An Escambia County Sheriff’s Department was called to the scene, while other deputies searched locations in Century that the homeless man was known to visit. Deputies located the man unharmed in Century.
It took firefighters about an hour to bring the trailer fire and a nearby woods fire under control. There were no injuries reported.
The Century, McDavid and Walnut Hill stations of Escambia Fire Rescue responded to the call, along with the Florida Division of Forestry.
Pictured above: Firemen search the remains of a burnt-out mobile home looking for a possible body. Pictured below: Firemen and an Escambia County Deputy survey the scene. Pictured below middle: A fireman works to extinguish the fire. Pictured bottom: The fire allegedly began in this barrel located about 100 yards away from the burned mobile home. NorthEscambia.com exclusive photos, click to enlarge.
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One Response to “Byrneville Brush Fire Ends With A Search For A Body”
i drove by this and it looked pretty bad