Operations & Training

Over Half-Dozen RI Departments Battle Fatal Trailer Fire

June 23, 2021

Roughly 80 firefighters worked for around an hour to put out a fire that broke out in a Hopkinton trailer home, killing two people who were asleep inside.

By Jack Perry

Source Providence Journal

Two people died in a trailer home fire late Tuesday that had about 80 firefighters from more than a half-dozen departments responding.

Two people died in a fire late last night in a Hopkinton trailer home, according to the Ashaway Fire Department.

Firefighters were called to the home on Alton Bradford Road at 11:53 p.m., Ashaway Fire Chief Ronnie J. Sposato said.

It's believed the people inside were asleep; their identities have not been released.

About 80 firefighters from seven or eight area departments turned out, and it took about an hour for firefighters to knock down the blaze, Sposato said.

The cause is unknown. The Hopkinton police and Rhode Island fire marshals office were still there investigating Wednesday morning, Sposato said.

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