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BETHEL – A couple burned out of their Woodstock home in October lost another home to fire Monday in West Bethel.

Fire Chief Jim Young said that neither Roy nor Linda Buck were home at 11:56 a.m. Monday when fire ripped through the mobile home they were renting from Phil Dougherty of Bethel.

A firefighter was injured when he slipped on ice, Young said, and the Buck’s family cat perished in the blaze.

About 20 firefighters responded from Bethel, Gilead, Greenwood and Newry stations, along with Bethel Rescue. Woodstock firefighters stood by at Bethel’s fire station.

The mobile home measuring 12- by 64-feet was on Robinson Hill off Route 2 about a mile beyond Bethel’s Best restaurant.

Young said the fire was possibly electrical in origin. A State Fire Marshal’s investigator was scheduled to examine the destroyed home Tuesday morning.

On Oct. 28, the couple lost their Route 26 home across from the ball field just north of Bryant Pond village.

That fire displaced the couple, their daughter, granddaughter and a family friend staying with them.

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