Tucson Fire crews were dispatched at 3:03 am Saturday morning May 7, 2016 and arrived at the scene of the fire at 3:10 to find a mobile home engulfed in flames. It took them 29 minutes to get the fire under control.
However unfortunately the fire destroyed a mobile home in the 3400 block of North Flowing Wells. The home was fully involved in fire as crews arrived on scene. Multiple calls were made to 9-1-1 reporting the flames and fire crews could see a heavy column of smoke as they responded to the scene. In addition to the Flowing Wells fire, another person called to 9-1-1 reporting a mobile home fire on Prince Road and that it was different than the Flowing Wells fire.
An additional full alarm was dispatched to that address but the first crew was able to confirm it was the same fire. The first crew arrived on scene and reported the home to be fully involved and that they would have to fight the fire defensively, meaning from the outside.
They immediately pulled hose lines to extinguish the fire from the exterior as well as protect the neighboring homes on both sides of the involved home. Additional fire crews that arrived on scene and pulled additional hose lines to prevent the fire from spreading. Fronds from a palm tree engulfed in flames repeatedly and landed on the roof of the neighboring mobile home but fire crews immediately extinguished the fronds, preventing them from starting the roof on fire. Once the crew was able to extinguish the majority of the flames from the exterior, they entered the home to ensure no one was inside.
Nine units and twenty-three firefighters were dispatched to the scene and the fire was under control twenty-nine minutes after they arrived. There were no injuries to firefighters. No contact had been made with the resident but efforts were being made to do so. Investigation of the cause continues and no estimate of the cost of damages has been attempted.