Officials: 3 Dead in Va. Mobile Home Fire

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Posted: 11:57 PM Feb 4, 2012 Officials: 3 Dead in Va. Mobile Home Fire NEW MARKET, Va. (AP) Authorities in Rockingham County say three people are dead after a fire at a mobile home. The Rockingham County Fire and Rescue Department Capt. Mike Armstrong told the Daily News-Record that two men and a juvenile boy died in the blaze early Saturday.

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Feburary 4, 2012

Authorities in Rockingham County say three people are dead after a fire at a mobile home.

The Rockingham County Fire and Rescue Department Capt. Mike Armstrong told the Daily News-Record that two men and a juvenile boy died in the blaze early Saturday.

Three other men that were inside the structure escaped. Officials did not identify those involved.

One of the men who survived was taken to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville for burns to his back, another was treated and released from Rockingham Memorial Hospital for lacerations to his arm, and the other survivor was evaluated at the scene.

Armstrong says the cause of the fire is under investigation.

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