Early Morning Fire Destroys Mobile Home

Heat from an early morning fire at the Frontier Village Mobile Home Park on U.S. 19, was so intense it melted a nearby mailbox and car's bumper, and also caused a neighbor's window to crack.

The blaze destroyed a double-wide mobile home on Apache St. The blaze broke out around 3:30 a.m. according to Pinellas County 911 records. The home that caught fire belonged to the mother of a woman who manages the mobile home park. The woman was very upset about the fire and did not want to talk about it. However, she did say no one was inside the mobile home when it caught fire. 

The blaze woke up Debra Kunde, who lives nearby. "I was freaking out. I saw smoke and I couldn't believe it, when the firetruck moved," she said, pointing to the charred remains of the mobile home.

"It makes me want to move. Look how fast it went up."

Kunde says the woman who owns the home is in Michigan, where she lives for part of the year. Kunde says the fire is especially tragic because the woman's husband died earlier this year, and now she's lost her home.

The cause of the fire is under investigation, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Times.