Mother escapes burning mobile home with 2 young children near Friedensburg

A woman and her two young children escaped their burning mobile home Oct. 9 in Wayne Township.

Rebeka Schuring, 23, said that she had reported concerns to her landlord less than an hour before the fire.

“I told my landlord the breaker box was sparking, and she told me she would get ahold of her husband,” Schuring said about her call at 7:52 p.m.

Around 30 minutes later, Schuring called back to tell the landlord that the mobile home, which she lived in for three years, was on fire. Her landlord told her to tell surrounding neighbors to leave because of nearby propane tanks.

“My son is running out of his room, telling me fire is in the closet where the breaker box is,” Schuring said.

She recounted the experience while standing shoeless across the street from the Pine Terrace community, along Route 443 about a mile east of Friedensburg, as firefighters worked the scene.

The Schuylkill County Communications Center was notified at 8:37 p.m. of the fire at 17 Pine Terrace.

Source: Berkshire mont