Local firefighters respond to scene of house fire in northwest Breckenridge
By Tony Pilkington and Carla McKeown/Breckenridge Texan
Multiple emergency responders were on the scene of a house fire in northwest Breckenridge late Monday night/early Tuesday morning. The fire started about 11:20 p.m. Monday night, according to officials.
Several witnesses at the scene said two adjoining mobile homes on the southwest corner of West First Street and North Harvey Avenue were occupied at the time the fire started, but everyone reportedly escaped the house. Several people in the area reported hearing loud explosions during the fire, and one witness said he initially saw a lot of flames, but they died down quickly.
At little after midnight Tuesday, Oct. 15, there were at least three fire trucks and their crews still on the scene, along with law enforcement officers from the Breckenridge Police Department and the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office. The Stephens County Constable and an ambulance with Sacred Cross EMS also responded to the scene.
A man who lives in the house said he was watching TV when the room filled with smoke and he climbed out through a window. After alerting his brother and sister-in-law in a separate trailer, he went back to the mobile home and used a brick to break the door open so that he could get his bicycle out of the house. Once he was out of the house, he said, he heard the explosions and saw the flames.
Officials are investigating the cause of the fire.
Cutline, top photo: Breckenridge firefighters work to put out a house fire in northwest Breckenridge around midnight Tuesday, Oct. 15. The occupants of the mobile home reportedly escaped without injury. (Photo by Tony Pilkington/Breckenridge Texan)