One of about a dozen firefighters emerges from a mobile home fire July 5 at 59527 N. Cooper Road east of Amite around 3 p.m. Photo by Mark Mathes.

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Tangipahoa Fire District Chief Bruce Cutrer talks with an unidentified man and a Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's deputy July 5 at the N. Cooper Road fire. Photo by Mark Mathes.

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Firefighters responded around 3 p.m. July 5 at the location a couple miles east of the Tangipahoa River bridge on Hwy. 16. There were no apparent injuries. Photo by Mark Mathes.

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AMITE--A three-alarm mobile home fire mid-afternoon Thursday, July 5 had no apparent injuries for a family.

The smoldering black fire struck at 59527 N. Cooper Road. This is midway between East Bell Road to the north and Company Road/Myers Road to the south. It is about four miles east of the Tangipahoa River bridge on Hwy. 16.

People near the scene said a couple by the name of Darlene and Rusty, no last name available, their son Dusty and daughter-in-law and grandchild lived there.

Tangipahoa Fire District 1 Chief Bruce Cutrer and at least three of his units responded, including a pumper truck.

Firefighters poured hundreds of gallons of water on the interior of the older mobile home. Black smoke seeped from most windows. A dog lapped from a puddle.

The neighborhood is a mix of single family homes and manufactured housing, small farms, a kennel or two and small garden plots.

An hour or so earlier, the fire district units responded to a grass fire west of I-55.

Details are sketchy and will be updated on Tangilena.com as they become available.