Two Early Morning Fires Damage Gaston County Homes
Posted: 6:35 am EDT April 9,2007Updated: 10:43 am EDT April 9,2007
GASTON COUNTY, N.C. -- Fire crews in Gaston County put out two fires that broke out in people's homes early Monday morning.Flames burned a house on the 2000 block of Bainbridge Street around 1:30 a.m.Dorothy Camp owns the home and says her teenage son was looking for something under a bed with a lighter. The bed caught fire, and he could not extinguish it.Firefighters say the back of the house is a total loss and estimate the damage around $50,000.Everyone in the house made it out safely.About 20 minutes later, crews responded to a fire on Crowder Ridge Lane.An empty trailer caught fire, but no one was hurt.Investigators are trying to find out how the fire started.
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