LIVERMORE – Jon and Michelle Adams stood off to the side with family Thursday night as they watched firefighters trying to save their home at 69 Sanders Road.
The couple had been at work at Tracy’s Express in Turner when their daughter, Taylor, 14, called to tell them their mobile home was on fire, Michelle Adams said Thursday.
Taylor and her brother, Daniel, 9, had been at home and saw fire coming up through her bedroom floor, Adams said.
The children escaped without injury as did the family’s pets before the home was destroyed, Livermore Assistant Fire Chief Donald Castonguay said Thursday.
When firefighters arrived, the flames were rolling out of the home, he said.
About 40 firefighters from Canton, Jay, Livermore, Livermore Falls and Turner helped battle the blaze. Water was shuttled to the home from Brettun’s Pond on Route 4, about mile from the scene and dumped into two portable holding pools.
NorthStar Emergency Medical Services medics stood by at the site.
Firefighters were still trying to put out the stubborn fire more than two hours after it was reported at 4:33 p.m.
Castonguay said he hadn’t had a chance to investigate where the fire started or what caused it as firefighters were working at the scene.
Adams said they had lived at the mobile home set on a foundation for seven years. The trailer was insured, she said.
The trailer is owned by the couple’s family members, Therese and Dick McKenna of Jay, who were both at the scene Thursday night.
Adams and her husband both said they were thankful everyone was all right.
Now her daughter’s biggest concern, Adams said, was what she was going to wear to school Friday. The children go to schools in SAD 36.
The couple said they were not “ones to ask people for help.”
They planned to stay with Jon’s sister, Renada and her husband, Joe Hutton, in Jay.
Jon is the son of Marcia Adams, the Livermore Falls woman who owns the cat that was shot with a dart.
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