Late Tuesday afternoon, the Albertson, Pleasant Grove, Pricetown and Seven Springs fire departments as well as Duplin County EMS Station 6 responded to a structure fire on Highway 111 north of Albertson. Heavy black smoke could be seen from several miles away as the firefighters approached the scene where a doublewide mobile home was fully engulfed in flames. Using multiple attack lines, firefighters were able to quickly get control of the blaze and keep it from spreading to the wooded area. A small utility building behind the mobile home was also destroyed in the fire. No was one home when the blaze began, and Duplin County Animal Control responded to the scene to remove several dogs that weren’t injured in the fire. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.
