Two fires Sunday damaged southern Otsego County homes.
The first blaze struck 383 County Highway 48 in Otego at about 1:40 p.m. The second involved a home on Baker Hill Road in West Oneonta at about 3:15 p.m.
A dog was killed in the Otego fire, and a firefighter suffered a minor ankle sprain in the West Oneonta fire.
No other injuries were reported from either blaze.
The first fire started in a bathroom in a double-wide mobile home owned by Nora Pierce, according to Otego Assistant Fire Chief Scott Secor.
Secor said Pierce lived there with her daughter, Kim Hungerford.
Hungerford was mowing the lawn when she noticed the fire and called 911 from a cell phone, he said.
There was no one inside the home at the time of the blaze, but a dog was killed, Secor said.
The cause is believed to be electrical, he said.
Fire damage was heavy on one end of the house, and there was heat and smoke damage throughout the home.
The second fire struck a home on Baker Hill Road.
There was no information immediately available from West Oneonta firefighters Sunday night.
But Secor said an Otego firefighter suffered a minor ankle injury and was examined at A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital.
Many of the same firefighters responded to both blazes.
About 40 firefighters from the Otego, West Oneonta, Wells Bridge, Oneonta and Franklin fire departments were at the scene of the Otego fire.
West Oneonta, Otego, Oneonta, Mount Vision and Laurens firefighters were called to help with the West Oneonta fire.
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