NORTH OKANAGAN – A North Okanagan woman is staying with family after a weekend blaze reduced her mobile home to a pile of charred debris and twisted metal. She was the only person in the home at the Newport Beach Campground and Mobile Home Park at the time. Rick Tompkins, who lives across the street, says he was woken up around 1:00 am Sunday by someone banging on his door. It was his neighbor who had escaped her burning mobile.
“She said, ‘My house is on fire!’ So I opened the door and looked over and by that point it was all fire already coming out the front living room window,” says Tompkins.
Tompkins says the woman was in shock but otherwise okay.
“She said she just heard a bang and then she got up and tried to come down the hallway but it was just nothing but smoke billowing down the hallway so she just came out the back door,” he says.
A nearby parked truck that couldn’t be moved also sustained significant damages.
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