Woman, 2-Year-Old Boy Perish In Mobile Home Fire

TAMPA, FL – A woman, 58, and a 2-year-old boy died in a Wednesday night fire in a mobile home in Tampa.

The woman's son, 43, and a deputy both suffered non-life threatening injuries in the blaze reported just after 11 p.m. on the 5300 block of Garden Lane, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Arriving deputies found the single-wide unit fully engulfed in flames, the adult male suffering from smoke inhalation and burns laying on the ground, and could hear a female yelling from inside the home, officials said. The man told officers his mother and a child were still inside.

Deputy Dane Tewmey, 29 and on the force since 2009, entered the home in an attempt to rescue the two, and had reached the woman when the fire flashed and caused an explosion, the department said. Tewmey was knocked backward, and despite a second attempt to go inside was unable as the fire was too intense, according to the agency.

Arriving crews from the Hillsborough County Fire Rescue extinguished the fire, and, after searching the residence, located the bodies of the woman and the little boy, deputies said.

Tentative identification of the victims were made, however, official identification is pending from the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office.

The State Fire Marshals Office, Hillsborough County Fire, the County Medical Examiner's Office and HCSO detectives are conducting a joint investigation to determine the cause and origin of the fire and official cause of death.

Tewmey suffered burns to his hands and arms and was treated at a local hospital and later released.

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