| Updated: 9/05/2009 2:20 pm |
Published: 9/04/2009 7:42 pm |
An investigation into a mobile home explosion Friday afternoon in Faulkner County is underway. Now, neighbors want to know if the couple who lived there was making meth minutes before the fire.
No one really knew much about them. "They always looked like they was on drugs. And the neighbors, every neighbor that they went to, will tell you the same thing, that they looked like they were high," says neighbor Nannette Ramsey.
Friday, the trailer belonging to Ramsey's new, mysterious neighbors blew up. "Heard an explosion, looked out and saw the black smoke and my daughter-in-law ran behind the garage here and she said it's that trailer that's on fire," recalls Ramsey.
Ramsey's daughter-in-law immediately called 911, worried the couple might be trapped inside. "We knocked on the door. There's an RV over there and the door was open and there was no one there," she says.
And, no one inside the mobile home when firefighters checked it out. The mobile home has no electricity, no water and neighbors say the couple has been a problem since they moved in not too long ago, leaving piles of trash everywhere.
Ramsey thinks this points to one thing. "The firemen couldn't confirm yes or no whether it was a meth lab. The people are the kind that you don't hear anything from them in the daytime and at night they're making noises. They make our dogs bark, they walk up and down the street. There's a lot of vehicle traffic in and out," says Ramsey.
And that worries her. "They've just annoyed the neighbors around since they've been here," says Ramsey.
She's lived in her Faulkner County home for eleven years and says the neighbors share her concern. "It's really very scary not knowing, and in this day and time, the things that you see on the news, you suspect a lot of things," she adds.
Ramsey says her neighbors last saw the couple an hour before the explosion, and no one's seen them since. "They've been here a month, and no one knows what their names are."
And now, they may never know.
The Vilonia Fire Department tells FOX16 the Faulkner County Sheriff’s Department is handling the investigation.
We made several calls to the Faulkner County Sheriff’s Department and even went there to get a response, but no official was there and no one called us back.
