PORT HADLOCK — The tenant in a mobile home is homeless after he fell asleep without extinguishing burning candles, an East Jefferson Fire-Rescue spokesman said.
The tenant, who was not identified, was unharmed in the early Wednesday morning fire in a single-wide trailer in the Mountain View Mobile Home Park at 10805 Rhody Drive, Port Hadlock, said Bill Beezley, department spokesman, in a prepared statement.
“Although there wasn’t much damage to the outside, the inside was destroyed,” Beezley said.
“He lost pretty much everything.”
The tenant, who lost hundreds of VHS tapes and vinyl records in the fire, told firefighters he fell asleep in the living room while several candles were burning, Beezley said.
He “awoke to flames and intense heat and smoke filling the trailer to a level about 4 feet from the floor,” Beezley said.
After trying to douse the flames, he phoned for help from his next-door neighbor’s, and firefighters arrived at 12:51 a.m.
Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze but not before the trailer home was damaged by smoke, Beezley said.
The tenant did not have renter’s insurance, Beezley said, and was being assisted by the Olympic Peninsula Chapter of the American Red Cross.
