Fire Destroys Mobile Home in Oakdale's Twenty-Nine Pines

A mobile home in the 6400 block of Upper 56^th Street was destroyed by fire late Monday night.

The Oakdale Fire department was called to the home—located in 29 Pines mobile home park—around 10:30 p.m. said Oakdale Fire Chief Jeff Anderson.

Officials weren't yet sure Monday night what caused the fire, Anderson said, however, it started in the rear part of the trailer.

Anderson, who was the first one on the scene, could see flames already when he turned the corner at Hadley Avenue and Highway 36, he said.

When he arrived, the residents had already evacuated, and neighbors were trying to help put out the fire with garden hoses, he said, but the fire was growing too fast.

“Especially the older mobile homes like this, they burn pretty quickly if you get any kind of a fire going in them at all,” he said.

It took about 15 to 20 minutes to get the fire under control, he said, and after that firefighters took turns going through the home looking for hot spots and smoldering debris, and making sure the fire was out.

No one was injured in the fire, he said. A woman and two teenagers live in the home, he said.

They have been referred to the American Red Cross.

The Woodbury Fire Department assisted, he said, by covering Oakdale’s fire stations during the incident.