Chubbuck firefighters at fire scene

Chubbuck firefighters investigate the cause of a fire that gutted a mobile home on Monday evening on Circle Inn Drive.

CHUBBUCK — A fire gutted a mobile home at a Chubbuck trailer park on Monday evening, resulting in several neighboring residents being temporarily evacuated.

The fire was reported at the mobile home on Circle Inn Drive near Smith’s supermarket around 7:10 p.m.

The blaze happened a few hundred yards from the Chubbuck Fire Department’s station on Yellowstone Avenue so firefighters were able to respond quickly and keep the fire from spreading to any of the adjacent mobile homes in the trailer park.

There were no injuries but the cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Chubbuck Fire Department. The fire is not considered to be suspicious, the Fire Department said.

Chubbuck mobile home fire

Firefighters battle a fire at a mobile home on Chubbuck's Circle Inn Drive on Monday evening.

The woman who lived at the residence where the fire ignited was home at the time but was able to safely escape the blaze before it destroyed her residence, the Fire Department reported. The woman’s name has not been released.

She is currently staying with a family member until she can find a new place to live, the Fire Department said.

Chubbuck firefighters had the fire mostly out five minutes after arriving but remained on the scene extinguishing hot spots and investigating the blaze until around 9:15 p.m. Monday. There were multiple oxygen tanks in the residence where the fire occurred but those tanks did not explode during the fire, the Fire Department said.

Chubbuck police temporarily evacuated several of the adjacent mobile homes as a precaution. Police also temporarily shut down Circle Inn Drive because of the blaze.

Firefighters said they weren’t sure if the woman’s mobile home was insured.

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