Bio: Meyer, Mr./Mrs. John – Mobile Home Destroyed by Fire (Jan 1977)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Meyer

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 26 Jan 1977

A fire which is believed to have started from an electrical short in a fuse box completely destroyed the new mobile home belonging to Mr. and Mrs. John Meyer of rural Curtiss about 1 p.m. Saturday.

The fire was discovered when Mrs. Meyer returned from shopped and smelled something burning. When she went outside to call her husband, who was working in the barn, and her two children, who were playing in the yard, the flames had already become visible on the outside of the home.

Mrs. Meyer re-entered to call the fire department and found the phone was dead. Her husband instructed her to go to the home of a neighbor to call for help, while he tried to put out the flames, and in so doing she backed the car into a ditch.

Meyer then jumped into a pickup parked near the bard, and his excitement of the fire, tore a door off the pickup. He started down the road, but a neighbor who has seen the flames had already called the fire department.

The flames spread quickly, according to the Meyers, charring the walls and ceiling of the 12 X 60 home, which the young couple purchased in September. The family lost everything except the clothes they were wearing.

Meyer, employed at Weathershield Manufacturing in Medford, moved his family from Ogema to Curtiss last May.

The couple’s two sons, Kevin, 7, and Jeff, 6, are students at Withee Grade School.