Fire crews raced to a mobile home park in Chandler shortly after 4:30 a.m. Wednesday after a call came in for a fully engulfed structure fire, and by the time crews arrived, the flames had already spread to a second mobile home nearby.
The blaze broke out in the 400 block of Sunny Acres Lane off Gardner Road, according to 14news.com, which reported that fire officials confirmed the flames spread to another mobile home as crews worked the scene. The Warrick County Sheriff's Office had posted earlier Wednesday that Chandler had an active structure fire at Sunny Acres Mobile Home Park and that crews were working to extinguish it.
Nobody was hurt in the fire, and the mobile homes involved were vacant, 14news.com reported. A separate report from tristatehomepage.com similarly described the unit as unoccupied, noting that the home next door was also damaged.
Crews Tear Into Walls to Snuff Out Hot Spots
Firefighters worked to knock down walls at the scene to make sure the fire was fully extinguished, per the same 14news.com account. The station's report later confirmed the cause of the fire was not yet known, and that the State Fire Marshal would investigate.
The tristatehomepage.com report, meanwhile, said the flames were out by the time of its update. Neither report specified exactly when the fire was declared out or when the road reopened to traffic.
Road Closure Details Differ Between Reports
The sheriff's office post said Gardner Road would be shut down between State Street and Russell Road while crews worked to extinguish the fire. But tristatehomepage.com described the closure differently, reporting that Gardner Road was closed between Russell Road and Outer South State Street as crews continued their work. The two accounts do not agree on the exact wording of the closure's State Street endpoint.
This isn't the first mobile home fire to hit Chandler in recent years. Back in October 2022, Warrick County dispatchers reported a fire at the corner of McCool Road and JD Toomey Drive, which 14news.com covered at the time. In that earlier incident, the homeowner said a burn pile had gotten out of control because of the wind, and the damage stayed limited to the yard and the home's siding, with nobody hurt.
No further updates on this week's Sunny Acres Lane fire, including the eventual findings of the State Fire Marshal's investigation, were available as of Wednesday.
