Published August 26. 2025 02:45PM
No one was injured after a fire broke out Monday morning at a mobile home park in East Penn Township.
Township fire Chief Brenden McArdle said firefighters responded at 10:06 a.m. to a mobile home at 60 Shelby Lane of the Northside Heights mobile home park.
“It was called in by a neighbor, who should be credited with finding the fire, calling the department, and extinguishing the fire,” McArdle said.
He said the fire had started on the exterior of the building.
“Nothing looks suspicious,” McArdle said. “We think it was refracted light off a glass object that caught the siding on fire. There was no electrical on the area, no signs of foul play.”
McArdle said that no one was home at the time, and added the home sustained very minimal damage.
He said a dog that was inside the home was uninjured.
McArdle said firefighters were on the scene for about a half-hour.
“The real credit goes to the neighbor,” said McArdle, who noted that the neighbor, Bobby Kintz, was sitting on his porch, walked over and put the fire out. “Had another five, 10 minutes gone by, the place would have burned to the ground.”
McArdle said the West Penn Fire Department, Mahoning Valley Fire Department, and Lehighton Ambulance also assisted at the scene.
Firefighters responded to a fire that broke out at 10:06 a.m. Monday at a mobile home at 60 Shelby Lane of the Northside Heights mobile home park. COPYRIGHT LARRY NEFF/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS