July 4, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
A fire Wednesday evening destroyed a mobile camper trailer on Jacobs Pillar Road.
DeKalb County Fire Chief Donny Green said Sherry Gunter lived in the trailer but was not home at the time. A neighbor who lives in an adjacent camper and who owned Gunter’s trailer spotted the smoke and reported it. The fire quickly spread and consumed the trailer and all of Gunter’s belongings.
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Firefighters contained the blaze to keep it from spreading although heat from the fire melted fiberglass on the exterior of the neighbor’s camper trailer only 8 feet away.
The cause of the fire is undetermined
Members of the Main Station, Cookeville Highway, and Midway stations responded.
Meanwhile lightning struck a large shed belonging to Linda Cantrell on Allen Bend Road in the Belk Community Wednesday at about the same time as the fire on Jacobs Pillar Road.
Chief Green said the lightning strike on the eave of the shed sparked a fire in the attic.
Firefighters were summoned and snuffed out the smoldering blaze without any major damage to the shed.
Members of the Belk and Keltonburg Stations responded along with the tanker truck.