Firefighters from The Villages battled a blaze early Thursday morning at a residence in a Wildwood retirement community.
Firefighters from The Villages were able to quickly extinguish a fire that broke out Thursday morning in the kitchen area of a mobile home in the Continental Country Club retirement community. Photo courtesy of The Villages Public Safety Department.Smoke was coming from the kitchen area of this mobile home on Thursday morning when Villages firefighters arrived at the residence, located on Big Oak Lane in Continental Country Club. Photo courtesy of The Villages Public Safety Department.
Crews were called shortly after 7 a.m. to a mobile home on Big Oak Lane in Continental Country Club, located just off State Road 44 in Wildwood. A 911 caller reported that smoke was coming from the residence, a Villages Public Safety report states.
Crews from Villages Station 47 arrived in just under five minutes to find smoke showing from one side of a double-wide mobile home. Firefighters were told by a resident that everyone had gotten out of the home, the report says.
Firefighters made an offensive attack and quickly brought the blaze under control. Primary and secondary searches confirmed that no one was inside the residence the report says.
A firefighter hoses down one of his colleagues early Thursday morning after crews from The Villages Public Safety Department fought a kitchen fire in a mobile home at Continental Country Club. Photo courtesy of The Villages Public Safety Department.Multiple units from The Villages Public Safety Department were called to a mobile home fire early Thursday morning in Continental Country Club. No injuries were reported in the incident. Photo courtesy of The Villages Public Safety Department.
