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A fatal home fire took the life of one person Monday night in Jamestown.
Fentress Fire Chief Larry Cooper said emergency dispatch received a call around 9:30. Multiple fire trucks dispatched to the residence off Kensly Road in Jamestown. Cooper said firefighters were able to quickly knock down flames at the back of the mobile home. When they conducted an interior search, they found a body at the front door.
“The problem was that it was a mobile home that had been built onto,” Cooper said. “And when you build onto a mobile home, it was chopped up so bad that you had a wall, between a wall, between a wall, and it’s rather difficult to get in and get those hot spots knocked down to where it’s safe enough to get the crews to go in and do their search.”
Cooper said the body was sent for an autopsy Monday night. The Fentress County Sheriffs Department joined in the investigation once the body was found.
Cooper said that the fire likely lasted just a few minutes before firefighters arrived on the scene to extinguish it.
“The way mobile homes are built, if you don’t get there pretty quick it gets out of hand pretty quick,” Cooper said.
Cooper said a dog was found on the porch of the residence unharmed.
“‘[They] tried to get out of the house and the neighbors came and tried to get [their] attention,” Cooper said. “But they didn’t realize, they didn’t know that [they] were there, they just thought [they] might have been in the back side of the house or something.”
