Someone in the family should have, and likely could have, prevented the fire from even reaching the Trailer.
That issue concerns me more than that he hadn’t paid the bill.
His grandson started the fire, in some barrels, that probably had waste oil or some other junk that was flammable. Could have been trash barrels. They probably don’t have trash pick up in that rural area either.
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Mr. Cranick says that if fireman had just sprayed a little water on the house, the pets wouldn’t have died.
Had Mr. Cranick sprayed a little water on the burning trash barrels, his house would not have caught fire.
Even rural double wide trailers have an outside water faucet. I guess he might not have had a hose. But I am sure they had a bucket, somewhere. Maybe in the house, with the pets.