LIVERMORE (KRON) — One man is dead following a fire at a mobile home park in Livermore Wednesday afternoon.
Around 1:40 p.m., the Livermore Police Department got several called about a fire that had started at the community in the 6500 block of Southfront Road.
When officers and fire personnel arrived, they saw that a fifth-wheel trailer was fully engulfed and another trailer nearby was also on fire.
Livermore police evacuated the area as members of the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department fought the blaze.
Bystanders told firefighters someone was still inside the engulfed trailer, but rescuers couldn’t enter because of the intense heat, Livermore-Pleasanton fire Battalion Chief Michael Miller said. They searched the second trailer but found no one inside.
When firefighters were able to get into the fifth-wheel trailer, they learned that an adult man was dead inside the fifth-wheel trailer.
That man was identified as 73-year-old Vernon Sweeney.
There were no other injuries reported.
Both trailers were left uninhabitable. A shed and several cars were also damaged. A man who lived in the second trailer was not home when the fire broke out and is staying with friends or family, Miller said.
It is unclear exactly how the fire started, but it appears to be accidental, Miller said.