“There were heavy flames coming out of two sides of the residence” when fire crews arrived, Mad River Twp. Lt Scott Sells said.
The owner of the mobile home, Joel Miller, said he heard a noise from under his home before the fire began.
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Rick Marsh, Miller’s father, said his son’s bedroom was near the rear of the mobile home and when he went into the hallway, it was filled with smoke.
“He went back to the bedroom and immediately shut the circuit breaker off,” Marsh said.
After Miller escaped from the mobile home, he called 9-1-1.
Fire crews quickly knocked down the flames and “were able to keep it from spreading to the other residences in the mobile home park,” Sell said.
The mobile home has smoke damage.
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Miller escaped with no injuries, but his cat was unaccounted for after the fire.
The American Red Cross was on scene to assist Miller, who lost everything besides the bike he uses to go to work.
“He doesn’t have anything,” Marsh said. “It’s devastating. I am in shock.”
Marsh explained that he lived in the mobile home and fixed it up before Miller moved into the home eight years ago.
Miller is planning to move to Tennessee, but will live with his father until he does.
The fire remains under investigation by the Office of the State Fire Marshal and the Mad River Twp. Fire Department.
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