6 Killed, 3 Injured in Texas Mobile Home Fire

GRANBURY, Texas – A fire raced through a lakefront home in North Texas early Sunday, killing six people and injuring three others, authorities said.

The fire broke out at about 5:30 a.m. Sunday in a double-wide mobile home in Lake Granbury, about 65 miles southwest of Dallas, Hood County Fire Marshal Brian Fine told The Associated Press.

Fine told Dallas/Fort Worth television station WFAA-TV that the dead ranged in age from 18 to 30 years old, and that the blaze happened after a late-night party at the home.

Two of the injured were airlifted to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, and the third was being cared for at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Fine told the station.

The Port Ridglea East development, where the fire took place, is made up mostly of retirees and weekenders.

Shirley Culberhouse, who lives about seven houses down the street from the home that burned, told the AP that it "was a group of boys who had moved in, and they were having a party."

Another neighbor, auto mechanic Michael Brennan, said the party woke him up.

"About 2:15 a.m., the noise woke me up. There was an argument going on. Then, there were cars pulling out, and I was sort of waiting for the sheriff to show up when the fire happened," he said.

The house was occupied full time, Brennan said.