Three departments respond to Thanksgiving Day fire

Firefighters from three departments responded Thursday afternoon to a structure fire on Burnt Gin Road. Luckily, the mobile home that burned to the ground was vacant and no one was injured. An otherwise quiet Thanksgiving for volunteer firefighters was interrupted just after noon when a fire destroyed a mobile home in the 1800 block of Burnt Gin Road.

More than 30 firefighters from three departments — Goucher-White Plains, Corinth and Asbury — responded to the afternoon fire that was initially reported as a fully-engulfed structure.

"It (the structure) was pretty much gone when I got here," said Lt. Brian Peeler of the Goucher-White Plains Volunteer Fire Department.

Nothing but charred earth and some twisted metal remained after the fire was extinguished and whatever had stood on the property was a total loss.

The property owner told firefighters the mobile home was vacant and that he had started dismantling it Wednesday.

It wasn't immediately clear what sparked the blaze, Peeler said.

Several other residences were in close proximity to the burning structure and firefighters made sure the fire didn't spread to other dwellings.

The ground all around the burned mobile home, roughly in a 30 foot diameter, was scorched black.

No one was injured.