Blaze guts New Minas mobile home, cause remains under investigation

By Kirk Starratt

kstarratt@kentvilleadvertiser.ca

NovaNewsNow.com

A mobile home was gutted by fire in New Minas Tuesday afternoon and although no people were injured in the blaze, a family lost two dogs.

New Minas Fire Chief James Redmond said the mobile home is still standing but the interior was totally destroyed in the fire. Firefighters responded to the structure fire, off Old Dyke Road, behind the Movie Gallery location, just west of the Kent Co-op, off Commercial Street, on Tuesday afternoon, May 6.

Heavy smoke was billowing from the mobile home as firefighters arrived on the scene around 3 p.m. New Minas Fire Chief James Redmond said on Wednesday that the cause of the fire remains under investigation by the fire department. The Kentville and Greenwich fire departments responded in mutual aid and Wolfville provided stand-in assistance at the New Minas fire hall.

Redmond said firefighters were on the scene for about an hour and a half. Firefighters closed Commercial Street to traffic between the eastern access to the County Fair Mall and Evangeline Middle School. Redmond said the street was closed for about 45 minutes. The reason for the closure was so that firefighters could run a line across the street to access a water supply from a fire hydrant.