Home and Automobiles Destroyed in Friday Fire caused by Lawn Mower (VIEW VIDEO HERE)

A woman escaped injury but lost her double wide mobile home and three automobiles in a fire Friday afternoon which started from a lawn mower.
Central dispatch was alerted at 3:27 p.m. to send firefighters to the home of Joyce Hoff on Pages Lane in the Antioch community.
According to DeKalb County Fire Chief Donny Green, Hoff had just gotten on her riding lawn mower, which was parked beside a shed and when she started it up, the mower caught fire. She was not injured by the flames quickly spread to the shed and then to the home.
The fire destroyed all the woman’s belongings including three automobiles, two parked in the shed and a travel camper parked under another shed near the home.
Members of the Belk and Short Mountain Highway stations of the DeKalb County Volunteer Fire Department responded along with tanker 1. Chief Green said members of the Smithville Volunteer Fire Department came at his request to provide mutual aide support. DeKalb EMS and Sheriff’s Department deputies were also on the scene.
Firefighters were called to the scene again early Saturday morning after the fire rekindled.