By Kellah Lavoie

Mobile home destroyed by fire

Jan 13, 2011 | 6:39 PM

Fire struck a mobile home, north of Prince Albert at around 6 p.m.

Tianna Morin, 14, was the first person to notice the home, engulfed in flames.

“I was sitting on the computer and I saw through the window there was orange flashing lights and I thought our house was on fire, and then I looked outside and their window, there was flames coming out,” she said, while watching fire fighters put out the blaze.

It was right next door, the girl alerted her parents immediately.

“I was just shaking,” she said explaining it was a scary situation.

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Ron Laliberte, Morin’s father, said he went to check the neighbour’s trailer as soon as he found out.

“They have a newborn in there too, so that’s the first thing (I thought). I went running, nobody was there. I was glad for that,” he said.

He went to talk to his other neighbours to tell them to leave and get clothes ready in case they have to be evacuated.

Laliberte said after calling 911, the police were there with 10 minutes, Buckland Fire and Rescue wasn’t far behind.

At 8:30 p.m., fire fighters were still hard at work.

Fire chief, Jim Miller said trailer parks are some of the toughest places to fight a fire.

“One of the things in this trailer park or any trailer park is trying to limit it to the one trailer that is on fire,” he said

“What were faced with here is a very large trailer park… we have trailers that are side by side and back to back so it creates kind of a multiple problem. So our concern was bringing in enough resources so we could contain it to the one trailer.”

When crews arrived on scene the trailer was engulfed with the majority of the fire in one of the back bedrooms.

They had two tankers, four pumpers and a water hauler on scene, along with 16 fire fighters.

“It`s a lot (of fire fighters) if we can contain it to one trailer. You can never have enough if it breaks out and goes to a different one, another one,” he said adding they called the Shellbrook fire department – who they have a mutual aid agreement with – for help before they even got to the fire.

“In a trailer there’s lots of nooks and corners and the ceiling itself,” Miller said, explaining even after they have the fire the out, they will have a truck spend most of the night on scene.

Laliberte is just happy at the response. He said there is no fire damage to his home, only minor smoke damage.

There will be no cause for the fire until an investigation is completed.

klavoie@panow.com