Mobile home catches on fire, resident sustains life-threatening injuries; traffic impacted on South Mission Road

A man is fighting for his life this afternoon as a result of sustaining life-threatening injuries in a mobile home fire.

According to North County Fire public information officer John Buchanan, an emergency call went out at about 2:45 p.m. today, Mon., Dec. 14, when a mobile home located on a property in the 4000 block of South Mission Road at Heller's Bend caught on fire.

"An elderly male who lived in the mobile home was taken by medical helicopter to a regional burn center with life-threatening injuries," Buchanan reported. The name of the man has not been released, due to privacy law.

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