Home burned in Pittsylvania County

By DENICE THIBODEAU, Danville Register & Bee
Published: February 7, 2008

BROSVILLE - One firefighter was injured and a mobile home suffered significant damage during a Wednesday evening blaze at Bachelors Hall Mobile Home Park, off Charming Road in Brosville.

Jay Farrar, assistant chief of the Brosville Volunteer Fire Department, said the call came in shortly after 5 p.m., and he and another volunteer firefighter reached the scene before the fire trucks arrived. At that time, Farrar said, heavy fire was coming from the back of the unoccupied mobile home at lot 42 and the wind was threatening to spread the fire to a neighboring mobile home. Once the engines and tankers arrived, the blaze was quickly contained.

“We knocked the fire down in about 10 minutes and the owner of the unit next door was begging us to save her trailer,” the assistant fire chief said. “That unit had some melted blinds and some exterior damage, but (the fire) didn’t go inside at all.”

Farrar said a firefighter was hurt, but declined to describe the injuries the firefighter sustained. He said the firefighter was taken to Danville Regional Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.

It was not immediately known how the fire started, but Farrar said Pittsylvania County Fire Marshal Steve Bowman would be conducting an investigation to determine its cause.

Volunteer firefighters from Bachelors Hall, Tunstall and Cascade also responded to the fire, according to a news release from the Brosville Volunteer Fire Department.

About 35 firefighters spent two hours battling the blaze, the release stated.

Farrar said neighbors told him no one had lived in the mobile home for some time, but he could not immediately confirm that.

Contact Denice Thibodeau at or (434) 791-7985.