Family of 10 Displaced After Fire at Mobile Home

Originally posted at 9:27 p.m. March 16, 2014. Edited to correct typo.

A Long Beach mobile home was damaged this morning by a noninjury fire that started in a clothes dryer, displacing a family of ten, authorities said.

The fire was reported at 10:30 a.m. at the Windward Village Mobile Home Park in the 3500 block of Santa Fe Avenue, said Capt. Jimmy Arvizu of the Long Beach Fire Department.

Arriving firefighters found the home engulfed in flames, he said.

"An adult occupant was able to escape with his children without injury prior to the arrival of firefighters," Arvizu said. "A total of ten family members lived at the residence, seven adults and three children."

Firefighters kept the flames from spreading to other mobile homes, according to Arvizu, who said the fire caused an estimated $50,000 in damage.

The American Red Cross was summoned to assist the family, he said.

--City News Service