Portable space heater linked to trailer fire

A portable space heater triggered a fire in a fifth-wheel recreational vehicle that claimed the lives of a woman’s seven pets Feb. 13.

According to city fire chief Mark Moore, the fire began inside the trailer that remained parked on a family’s property off South 18th East Street near the Hamilton Road intersection.

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