Fire destroyed about one third of a mobile home at 2020 Friendship Rd. in Waldoboro on March 9.
The fire started around 2:45 p.m. when the owner, Kevin Brewer, 50, stepped out of his workshop to take a phone call, leaving a hot soldering iron unattended, Brewer said.
The workshop, a shed behind the house, burned to the ground, and the fire spread from there to the house, Brewer said.
Brewer lives alone and has no pets, and no one else was in the house when the fire started, he said. Brewer was not injured.
Fire crews from Waldoboro, Friendship, Warren and Nobleboro were able to contain the fire before it damaged the bedrooms, but the kitchen and living were heavily burned, said Waldoboro Fire Chief Paul Smeltzer.
The Union Fire Department covered the Waldoboro station, and Waldoboro EMS and the Waldoboro Police Department assisted.
“He just has the worst luck,” said Nancy Gordon, Brewer’s mother. “If there’s anything that can happen, it’ll happen to him.”
