Fire destroys trailer home
Tom Hasslinger | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 13 years AGO
<p>Shawn Gust</p> <p>Coeur d'Alene Fire Department firefighters pause after opening up the side of a mobile home on Howard Street Tuesday after being dispatched to the structure fire just before 10a.m. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.</p>
COEUR d'ALENE - Family of the owner of a trailer home that caught fire this morning suspect the tenant they had to evict set the home ablaze.
The Coeur d'Alene Fire Department responded to structure fire at 3025 Howard Street around 10 a.m. Neighbors reported seeing flames coming from the mobile home, which spread to a nearby tree.
Crews extinguished the fire, which destroyed the home, in under an hour.
Adrianna Reeder, the granddaughter of the trailer's owner, as well as next door neighbor to it, said the family had been having problems with the trailer's tenant, a woman by the name of Kelly. She said
the family had been letting Kelly stay in the trailer as a favor, but had to evict her Tuesday for not paying rent.
Minutes before the fire was spotted, Reeder said the family saw Kelly walking away from the home. She called it arson.
"You go to help somebody out and that's what you get," she said. "You get (expletive) on."
Coeur d'Alene Deputy Fire Chief Glenn Lauper could not release details Tuesday morning, as the case is under investigation.