Plymouth Bureau

HOLDERNESS — Firefighters from four towns were called out in frigid temperatures Tuesday evening to fight a fire that broke out in the furnace area of a mobile home on Route 3 near the Bethel Woods Campground.

Fire department officials said the home was fully engulfed in flames when they arrived. The call went out from Lakes Region Mutual Aid at about 6:50 p.m.

"There wasn’t much we could do except control it," said Holderness Deputy Fire Chief Earl Hanson.

Owner Timothy Hubley was not home when the fire broke out, but arrived at the same time as the first fire units.

While fire units from Holderness, Meredith, Center Harbor and Ashland sprayed water on the fire and pulled parts of the metal-clad walls apart to attack the flames, a tanker truck was stationed at Butternut Pond to pump water by hose 200 yards up the road to the crews.

Once the flames were doused, trucks from the other towns went to fight other fires, leaving Holderness to seek out remaining embers.