Norway fire destroys mobile home Sunday night

NORWAY – A woman who escaped a fire with her life, said her dogs awakened her. Norway Fire Chief Dennis Yates said Lynda Proctor lived alone in an “older model” mobile home on Sodom Road. At about 8 p.m. Sunday, she was sleeping when her dogs, a Labrador Retriever and a Beagle, began to bark until she awakened and smelled smoke. Taking the two canines, she fled as the mobile home was quickly engulfed.

Yates said the fire seems top have started in wiring around the dryer, but that a state fire marshal would review the evidence Monday.

Yates commented that Proctor might salvage a few belongings that were in rooms at either end of the structure, because the fire started near the center and burned outwards in both directions.

“But she pretty well lost everything,” Yates observed.

Norway Fire Captain Bonnie Seames said there were no injuries, but the Red Cross has been asked to meet with Proctor to ascertain her immediate needs. The Waterford, Paris and Oxford Fire Departments sent mutual aid.

Engulfed Photo: Chuck Blaquiere

Flames shoot through the windows of a Sodom Road, Norway home Sunday evening.

Photo: Chuck Blaquiere

Sodom Road

Dogs save owner Photo: Chuck Blaquiere

DOGS SAVE OWNER – Lynda Proctor told Norway firefighters her dogs awakened her in time for all to escape her Sodom Road, Norway, mobile home, when it burned Sunday evening, November 7.