A mobile home fire in the Seven Springs area of Pasco County left one person with serious injuries Sunday afternoon, after two adults inside the single-wide home were caught in the blaze. The injured occupant was rushed to a hospital, while firefighters moved quickly to bring the flames under control.
According to Pasco News, crews with Pasco County Fire Rescue responded to a reported residential structure fire in the 4000 block of Cardoon Drive. Firefighters arrived to find flames and smoke pouring from the single-wide mobile home, the outlet reported, but managed to bring the fire under control quickly.
Both adults who were inside the home at the time of the fire were accounted for, per the same report, though only one was transported to the hospital after sustaining serious injuries. The outlet did not specify the occupant's condition beyond that description. Investigators are still working to determine what sparked the fire, the report noted, and no cause has been released.
Pasco County Has Seen Other Mobile Home Fires Turn Deadly
Mobile home fires have proven dangerous elsewhere in Pasco County in recent years. In Holiday, two people were severely burned in one blaze, with one airlifted by medical helicopter and the other taken by ambulance to Tampa General Hospital, according to WFLA. Both patients in that incident were listed as trauma alerts, and firefighters described arriving to heavy fire involvement at the home.
The same Holiday mobile home fire left two people with severe burns after they were pulled from a single-wide home that was already engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived, the Tampa Bay Times reported. In yet another Holiday fire, one person died and another was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, WFLA reported separately, noting that the cause remained under investigation but was not believed to be criminal in nature.
Those earlier incidents are separate from Sunday's fire on Cardoon Drive and don't establish any pattern connecting them, but they underscore how quickly a mobile home fire can turn serious. For now, the cause of the Seven Springs blaze remains unresolved as investigators continue their work.
