A fire destroyed three mobile homes and damaged three others Wednesday in Newport Beach, but no one was hurt.
The blaze broke out about 10 a.m. at the Beach/Bay Mobile Home Port at 7204 West Coast Highway, said city spokesman John Pope.
The cause of the fire was unknown, but it started in one of the mobile homes and spread to the others. Twenty-eight other mobile homes were spared damage, Pope said.
Two people were evaluated by paramedics at the scene for minor smoke inhalation, but there were no major injuries, Pope said.
On August 16, 2023 my mom was admitted to Hoag for smoke inhalation. Her oxegyn was at 40%. She was there and in aftercare for over 2 months. The trailer we had to continue living in was meant for a beach hangout. My husband bought it as a lark for $5k. NOT to live in.Sitting at the beach for nine or ten years didn’t do it much good in the rot, rat and rust department. It was held together with wallpaper that I had put up because there was no actual inner walls. They had been eaten by termites.about two years before the fire, I had used most of the insurance money after my husband died and bought a flat newer nicer trailer that my mom could still get around in. Fifth wheel trailers have stairs -two sets. In those two years previous; SIX other tenants had removed and replaced their “homes” and we were all trying to improve the park. All around my rotting trailer on both sides huge new trailers. Since Julie, the owner, knew I was shopping I didn’t anticipate any problems. I worked in contracting, building strip malls most of my working life as a project manager. There was no geographical, spacial, or utility problems and when instead of a friendly note, when I told her I’d finally found one I received a letter from her attorney, forbidding me to put one in..I fought for over a year but I’m not aggressive enough and as I was storing the other trailer at a storage facility in Irvine paying over $600 a month and then having to sell it at a loss, it hurt me terribly… mainly because I thought the owner and I were close. I’d been living there for ten years.
I just want to say and I know this for a fact derived from fifty years experience in construction, we would not have lost everything. Our cell phones wouldn’t have melted to our wallets had we been allowed to move in the newer much more protective unit…
I just feel that some light should be shed on this. My mother died in July at 102 years old and our (her) dog last month of heart failure.. I’m 71 and have been living in the absolute cheapest motel in Costa Mesa so that I could be near her at the Hospice near Hoag. As of next Friday I can’t afford this anymore but everything else is too much a, nnd no one, it turns out, wants to rent a room to a 71 year-old semi crippled woman… if I had a car I’d probably drive to the desert park in the warm sun and go to sleep, but I have no car now or friends – hard to make friends when you are with your mama 24/7 lol but she was incredible and I wouldn’t have missed a minute with her.
I just wanted you should know a little bit more about the fire.
P.S. In case you’re wondering, I did not insure my 1995 rotting trailer thinking that it wasn’t worth anything and no one would probably insure it.
But the fire at Beach and Bay Mobile Home Port DID have casualties. My little family..and now just me.