Firefighters with the Houston Rural Fire Department responded to fire calls Thursday and Friday last week.
The department sent three trucks and seven men at about 2:30 a.m. Thursday to a mobile home blaze on Highway H at Tyrone.
Houston Rural Chief Don Gaston said the fire did plenty of damage, but was doused with the home still mostly intact.
“It had a tin roof and then tar shingles then tar paper then plywood and then oak boards underneath that, Gaston said. “The fire was in between all those different layers, so we had a hard time putting it out. But we saved the house.
“It was contained back to a corner of the kitchen and a utility room.”
Gaston said lightning might have been the cause.
“I’m not sure, but it looks like it set the back part of the house on fire,” he said.
The Tyrone Fire Department also responded.
Two Houston Rural trucks and seven men responded Friday at about 7:30 a.m. to a reported fire at barn dairy barn on Plum Valley Road. Gaston said little damage was done and the fire had been mostly snuffed by citizens by the time firefighters arrived. He said the small fire might have started when rainwater caused a short in an electric box.