According to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, their dispatch received a report of a fire in the Rancho San Manuel Mobile Home Park at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 27, 2017. San Manuel Fire Department was also dispatched.
A trailer was found to be fully engulfed and a second nearby trailer was also on fire.
PCSO’s Public Information Officer Navideh Forghani said that a family member told deputies that she was frying chicken, walked away and came back to find that a grease fire had caught the cabinets on fire.
No injuries were reported, but the family’s three pets perished in the fire.
“San Man Fire did an outstanding job preserving neighboring residence from catching fire,” Forghani told the Miner in an email. “We were able to get others evacuated. Red Cross arrived to assist family.”
San Manuel Fire Chief John Stanford reported that there was nothing suspicious about the origin of the fire.