A woman and her paraplegic husband lost their new trailer home in south-central Arizona less than 24 hours after moving in, according to a local NBC News affiliate.
Elizabeth and Brian Petrie moved into the new mobile home in Mesa on Nov. 10 and went out to get some supplies and return a U-Haul, only to find the house ablaze on their return, according to their GoFundMe campaign.
Video footage shared by 12News shows the home engulfed in a raging fire, with firefighters battling the conflagration.
The Mesa Fire and Medical Department (MFMD) responded to the emergency. “[O]ur crews … worked to quickly extinguish the fire and prevent its spread to adjacent homes.”
The MFMD initially contained the fire but later ran out of water, Elizabeth Petrie told 12News.
What remains of the home is a burnt-out, apparently unlivable…
