Libby mobile home destroyed in Wednesday fire
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Above: Libby Volunteer firefighters battle a mobile home fire on Crossway Avenue in Libby Wednesday, Aug. 2. (John Blodgett/The Western News)
Above left: Libby Volunteer Firefighter Scott Beagle enters a burning mobile home on Crossway Avenue in Libby Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. (John Blodgett/The Western News)
Left: Libby Volunteer firefighters — from left, Scott Beagle, Brian Hobday, Eric Uithof and Paul Resch — work the scene of a mobile home fire on Crossway Avenue in Libby Wednesday, Aug. 2. (John Blodgett/The Western News)
No people were injured but a dog perished in a fire that blazed through a Libby mobile home Wednesday afternoon.
Libby Volunteer Firefighters were dispatched 2:14 p.m. to the home on Crossway Avenue near Parmenter Drive.
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office personnel diverted traffic from the neighborhood while firefighters attacked the blaze.
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