Fire from a controlled burn spread into a brush fire that consumed a mobile home in eastern Cumberland County on Friday morning, according to the Bethany Volunteer Fire Department.
Firefighters were called to the area of Fish Tail Road off Jack Page Road in Stedman about 11:30 a.m. and found a brush fire had surrounded a vacant mobile home, Lt. Justin Freeman said.
Firefighters from Stedman, Eastover, Vander, Wade and Godwin-Falcon contained the brush fire to about a half acre, but it damaged the mobile home, which was a total loss, he said.
The fire was under control in about 45 minutes, he said. No injuries were reported.
The fire began as a burn pile, and Freeman said no charges were expected because the owner of the mobile home is the person responsible for the fire.
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