PEABODY — A 72-year-old man was killed in a trailer park fire early Saturday morning.
Flames broke out in a trailer home on lot 24 of the Peabody Trailer Home Park at 252 Newbury St. around 5:30 a.m., Peabody Fire Chief Jay Dowling said.
Several drivers on Route 1 spotted a fire burning inside of the trailer park and called 911. Responding firefighters also saw flames coming through the roof of one of the trailers as their fire engine sped down the northbound side of the highway, Dowling said.
The trailer was fully engulfed in flames once crews arrived and the blaze was starting to reach the exterior of another trailer on lot 12, Dowling said.
Firefighters stopped the fire from fully spreading to the second trailer and knocked down the blaze within a half hour, Dowling said.
They found the man’s body inside of the destroyed trailer once the flames were doused, Dowling said.
His name is being withheld pending notification of his next of kin.
A woman who was inside of the trailer on lot 12 was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
No firefighters were injured.
The cause of the incident remains under investigation.
Contact Caroline Enos at CEnos@northofboston.com.