Four area fire departments were called out Friday afternoon to battle a fire that gutted a doublewide trailer on Meadow Creek Road (Ky. 1064) in Woodbine.
Woodbine Fire Chief Rick Fore said his department was paged to the scene about 2 p.m.
Oak Grove Fire Department was paged out at the same time as part of the departments’ mutual aid agreement. Rockholds and West Knox Fire departments were later paged for manpower and tanker trucks.
The owner of the home, identified as Portia Cox, was not at home at the time. Her niece, Tessa Hopkins, said Cox was at the hospital when the fire broke out, helping to take care of a sick family member.
Passers-by reportedly saw the fire and called 911.
Hopkins said Cox had left the home about two hours prior to the fire breaking out.
Firefighters had the blaze knocked down several times, only to see it flare up again.
Just after 5 p.m., Fore told Whitley County E911 dispatchers that firefighters were in the mop up stages and West Knox and Rockholds firefighters were leaving the scene.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
