Fire hits 3 mobile homes

GAINESVILLE - Fire damaged or destroyed three mobile homes on Highland Terrace early Tuesday, according to Hall County Fire Chief David Kimbrell.

Kimbrell said one single-wide was "fully involved at (the) time of call, radiant heat ignited another mobile home that received some structural damage, and radiant heat melted a third mobile home underpinning."

He said the mobile home where the fire started was vacant at time of fire, "without utilities" and the cause of the blaze remains under investigation.