Elderly woman dies in mobile home fire

Tuesday, March 28, 2000 | 11:18 a.m.

A 68-year-old woman moving into a mobile home was found dead inside the trailer after a fire broke out this morning.

Clark County firefighters were called to a mobile home park on Harmon Avenue at Jones Boulevard about 9:10 a.m. Firefighters went inside and found the woman dead in the hallway of the mobile home, said Steve La-Sky, fire department spokesman.

The woman, whose name was not released this morning, apparently had just stopped by the mobile home and was in the process of moving in, he said.

Most of the fire damage was in the front of the mobile home with smoke and heat damage throughout the home, he said. An autopsy will determine what caused the woman's death.

Firefighters were able to put out the fire in a few minutes, La-Sky said.

Fire investigators are trying to determine the where the fire started in the mobile home and the cause of the blaze, he said.

If the woman's death is determined to be a fire-related death, it will be the sixth fire-related death this month in the unincorporated area of Clark County.

On March 7 four people -- including three children -- died in a fire that engulfed an eight-unit apartment building on Karen Avenue. A fifth person died in a mobile home blaze a few days later.

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