County staff recommends moving forward with controversial AI data center in western PBC<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos from the scene show heavy damage inside the mobile home. Soot can be seen covering a bed and floor inside one of the rooms.<\/p>\n
Martin County Fire Rescue says crews were called to the home after a neighbor saw heavy smoke coming from the windows and doors and called 911.<\/p>\n
Firefighters quickly went into the home and found White unconscious inside.<\/p>\n
“Within minutes, they were able to find the victim that was inside,” said District Fire Chief Joshua Shell. “They pulled the victim out of structure and immediately started CPR.”<\/p>\n
White was rushed to the hospital where she later died.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo tragic that that happened,\u201d a neighbor said. “I can’t imagine the family, what they’re going through.”<\/p>\n
White\u2019s sister also thanked first responders on Martin County Fire Rescue\u2019s Facebook page, writing, \u201cThank you to all the first responders that helped my sister.\u201d<\/p>\n
Investigators believe an older electrical system likely sparked the fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you get into mobile homes, especially older ones like this one, stuff starts to deteriorate\u201d<\/p>\n
The fire chief also noted there were no smoke detectors in the home.<\/p>\n
Neighbors say the tragedy has shaken the tight-knit Hobe Sound community.<\/p>\n
\u201cHobe Sound is pretty tight knit and everybody will come together and hopefully surround this family and be there for one another,\u201d another neighbor said.<\/p>\n
Fire officials say the home was badly damaged in the fire and consider it a total loss.<\/p>\n
Fire investigators are reminding people to have electrical systems inspected regularly and ensure working smoke detectors are installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOBE SOUND, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The woman who died shortly after Martin County Fire Rescue pulled her from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-325408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}