Dave Hodges Democrat business editor — Pete Barnett and Crawford Atkins share a laugh when they talk about their nickname for the exotic chariot outside Capital Eurocars' Mercedes-Benz showroom. They call the black Sprinter G5 van “the Phantom,” but make no mistake. This is a serious ride.
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Dave Hodges Democrat business editor — Pete Barnett and Crawford Atkins share a laugh when they talk about their nickname for the exotic chariot outside Capital Eurocars' Mercedes-Benz showroom. They call the black Sprinter G5 van “the Phantom,” but make no mistake. This is a serious ride.
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Fire engulfed two mobile homes on a Manteca dairy shortly
before 4 a.m. Friday in the 10700 block of East Louise Avenue
forcing two families to flee into the darkness for their lives
as flames leaped into the night sky.
Lathrop Manteca Fire Chief Gene Neeley said the fire at the
B&B Dairy, between Austin and Jack Tone roads, was caused
by an electrical heater in one of the trailers noticed by a
14-year-old who heard popping and crackling and alerted his
sleeping relatives. The father reportedly ran to the
second trailer ordering those sleeping family members out of
the structure.
The Lathrop department had one engine and a water tender
dispatched to the blaze and asked for a mutual-aid
response. Ripon Consolidated Fire District responded with
one engine and a second water tender and Manteca City Fire
Department sent one of its engines to the scene.
The occupants were all dairy workers, Neeley said. There
were a total of three men and two boys, two women and two
girls. The chief said a predominant north wind carried
the flames to the second mobile home some 20 feet away.
Both structures were destroyed, leaving only the framing
standing.
Chief Neeley valued the loss of the two mobile homes at $50,000
to $60,000 with the content loss set at $10,000. The
families went to stay with relatives in Manteca and initially
turned down a Red Cross offer to stay in a motel. Neeley
said the offer for a two-day stay still stands, however.
While it wasn’t clear whether there was a smoke detector in the
mobile homes, the fact that the teen was awakened by the noise
of the fire breaking out discounts the presence of any alarm,
the chief said.
“We are lucky there wasn’t a fatality in this fire,” Neeley
said. “We were on the scene within eight minutes of
receiving the call and both mobile homes were completely
involved.”
He noted that once a mobile home catches fire it can become
engulfed in a very short time. The chief emphasized the
need for smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors in all
residential units to give families an extra measure of security
should their home catch on fire or be filled with carbon
monoxide fumes.
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Two families flee as fire destroys mobile homes
Fire engulfed two mobile homes on a Manteca dairy shortly
before 4 a.m. Friday in the 10700 block of East Louise Avenue
forcing two families to flee into the darkness for their lives
as flames leaped into the night sky.
Lathrop Manteca Fire Chief Gene Neeley said the fire at the
B&B Dairy, between Austin and Jack Tone roads, was caused
by an electrical heater in one of the trailers noticed by a
14-year-old who heard popping and crackling and alerted his
sleeping relatives. The father reportedly ran to the
second trailer ordering those sleeping family members out of
the structure.
The Lathrop department had one engine and a water tender
dispatched to the blaze and asked for a mutual-aid
response. Ripon Consolidated Fire District responded with
one engine and a second water tender and Manteca City Fire
Department sent one of its engines to the scene.
The occupants were all dairy workers, Neeley said. There
were a total of three men and two boys, two women and two
girls. The chief said a predominant north wind carried
the flames to the second mobile home some 20 feet away.
Both structures were destroyed, leaving only the framing
standing.
Chief Neeley valued the loss of the two mobile homes at $50,000
to $60,000 with the content loss set at $10,000. The
families went to stay with relatives in Manteca and initially
turned down a Red Cross offer to stay in a motel. Neeley
said the offer for a two-day stay still stands, however.
While it wasn’t clear whether there was a smoke detector in the
mobile homes, the fact that the teen was awakened by the noise
of the fire breaking out discounts the presence of any alarm,
the chief said.
“We are lucky there wasn’t a fatality in this fire,” Neeley
said. “We were on the scene within eight minutes of
receiving the call and both mobile homes were completely
involved.”
He noted that once a mobile home catches fire it can become
engulfed in a very short time. The chief emphasized the
need for smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors in all
residential units to give families an extra measure of security
should their home catch on fire or be filled with carbon
monoxide fumes.
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Boats, RVs, camping equipment – you name it – it's all on display at the annual East Texas Outdoor Expo in Longview. CBS 19's Abby Broyles takes us inside the expo and shows us how families can get involved this weekend.
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30th Annual East Texas Outdoor Expo kicks off in Longview Friday
Recreational vehicles, or RVs as they are fondly referred, to will be sold at factory direct pricing this weekend only in Warren.
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Macomb RV Outlet Show this weekend only
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BASES Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) president and Chief Executive Officer Arnel Paciano Casanova said there are no moves to take over. “The Sobrepeña-led CJHDevCo (Camp John Hay Development Corp.) has no basis for securing a temporary restraining order (TRO) against a takeover of CJHDevCo’s leased properties in the John Hay…
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After a decade of threats, the Tonto National Forest is moving to shut down a 167-resident mobile home park overlooking Roosevelt Lake. The Forest Service has decided that the decades-long lease of the land for the park filled mostly with trailers owned by vacation homeowners violates its policy barring exclusive private use of public lands. However, the operators of the trailer park say the …
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Trailer park residents face Forest Service closure
A new Kinect Star Wars trailer appears out of nowhere, as if crawling from the belly of a makeshift Tauntaun shelter, but don't expect to see any gameplay in this live-action skit.
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'Kinect Star Wars' trailer teases stern Vader