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Published: 20 June 2017 20 June 2017

By Roger Lanse

Firefighters from the Silver City Fire Department and the Pinos Altos Volunteer Fire Department were dispatched to a grass fire on Coleman Drive near Little Walnut Road at approximately noon on Sunday, June 18.

According to SCFD Chief Milo Lambert, the fire was also in the treetops of cottonwoods in the area. No structures were threatened and no injuries reported. Lambert said fire suppression personnel left the scene about 3:30 p.m., after extinguishing the fire.

However, no sooner had they returned to base, when firefighters from the SCFD were called out again, at about 5:30 p.m., together with Whiskey Creek and Tyrone volunteer fire departments, to a single-wide mobile home at 1450 Highway 90 that was engulfed in flames. According to Lambert, an insurance adjuster will determine if the structure was a total loss, but “there was nothing left,” he said.

The two volunteer fire departments provided tanker trucks to the mobile home fire as the closest water available was at the Chevron Station on Ridge Road, about one-half mile distant, Lambert stated.

Two firefighters were injured, according to Lambert, a volunteer from the TVFD who suffered heat exhaustion and a SCFD employee who was hit in the face when a fire hose ruptured. Both were transported to Gila Regional Medical Center and later released.

The cause for the mobile home fire is under investigation but has not yet been determined.