Victim suffers 'significant injuries' in RV fire
COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. - A 50-year-old man inside a camp trailer that caught fire Tuesday morning was taken to a Portland burn unit with significant injuries, firefighters said.
Firefighters got called to the fire just before 8 a.m. They found an RV camper trailer on fire in the 600 block of 10th Street in Cottage Grove.
The fire had spread to an adjacent garage.
Crews quickly knocked down the flames, which destroyed the RV and heavily damaged the garage.
No word yet on the identity of the victim. He was flown by air ambulance first to Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend, then transferred to a burn unit in Portland.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
plugging a rv into a standard 120 volt 15 or 20 amp plug is asking for something like this,please just dont do it if some one is gona live in it,Navy electrician,and I have been playing with rv's longer than any one you know,every aspect of rvs.
keep the lpg detector working as well as the smoke/fire detector