By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A woman narrowly escaped injury when a roof collapsed into her mobile in Winlock yesterday morning.
Lewis County Fire District 15 called to the 1200 block of King Road were told the resident had been sitting in a recliner and just gotten up.
About two minutes later “creak, pop, bang” and where she had been sitting was where most of the debris fell, Assistant Fire Chief Kevin Anderson said.
It was a single-wide mobile home with a pole barn-type roof above it, he said.
The weight of the snow was just too much, according to Anderson.
Fortunately the couple had a house they are in the process of remodeling where they could move to, he said.
Crews helped salvage what they could and moved some furniture and food into the other home, he said.
Anderson described the mobile home as beyond repair.
A Tenino family found themselves in a similar situation this morning when a tree sliced through their mobile home.
Crews were called just before 10 a.m. to the home, on Old Highway 99 just inside the city limits, according to Thurston County Fire District 12 Battalion Chief Jim Fowler.
At first, all he could see was the fallen tree and not the structure, Fowler said. He said the trunk was about a foot and a half in diameter and thought it might be a walnut tree.
Nobody was hurt, he said.
If not for the heaviness of the snow, it may not have broken through, he said.