BEAVER — An electrical short in cell phone charger left in an electrical outlet is believed to have started a fire that destroyed a mobile home on Trout Avenue north of Forks late Monday.
Clallam County Fire District No. 1 Chief Phil Arbeiter said the origin of the fire appeared to be a cell phone charger left in an electrical outlet.
Josh Goakey, who rents the mobile home, returned to find the rear of the 12-by-50-foot structure ablaze at about 11 p.m., Arbeiter said.
“It started in a back bedroom,” Arbeiter said.
“It looks like it was possibly a charger for a cordless phone or something like that.”
Arbeiter said the back bedroom was destroyed, and the rest of the mobile home sustained heavy heat and smoke damage.
He didn’t know what arrangements the renter had made for alternate housing.
No humans or pets were inside the structure when the fire started, Arbeiter said.
Crews from the Beaver fire station extinguished the blaze at about 11:20 p.m., he said.