Fire destroys Niceville trailer
NICEVILLE — Did the king snake survive?
If so, no one and no thing was hurt late Tuesday morning in a trailer fire off Palm Boulevard north of Partin Drive in Niceville.
Trailer owner Mary Snyder, who lived in the destroyed trailer long before it became a rental property, watched firefighters snuff out the fire.
“It’s gone,” she said as she looked out the door of her next-door business, Mary’s Beauty Shop. “It’s old (but) I didn’t want it to burn.”
She and her husband bought the trailer in 1958 as their first home.
Niceville Fire Chief Tommy Mayville estimated damage at $20,000.
An investigator for the state Fire Marshal’s Office will determine the cause. An American Red Cross worker arrived at the scene to help the trailer’s resident, who hadn’t arrived home yet, find a place to stay if needed.
Among items brought out of the home was an aquarium with a melted plastic trim.
A firefighter lifted a snakeskin from a cage, but said there was no sign of a snake.