An unoccupied mobile home located at 600 Twin Barns Road was destroyed by a fire of undetermined origin early today.

A report filed by Sheriff's Sgt. Glenna Estepp listed the single-wide mobile home, which was owned by Dwayne Peters, as a "total loss."

Greene County 911 had dispatched units of the Town of Mosheim Fire Department and the Midway Volunteer Fire Department to the scene shortly after 3 a.m.

A report filed at 3:17 a.m. indicated that when Sgt. Estepp arrived, the mobile home had been "fully engulfed" in flames. An early-arriving firefighter had reported the same situation.

The report noted that owner Peters was in Ohio and that the mobile home had been unoccupied for some time and did not have electric power. The report said Peters estimated the value of the mobile home at $45,000.

The blaze had been discovered after a neighbor was awakened about 2:30 a.m. by a barking dog and went outside to investigate, according to the report.

The neighbor, according to the report, saw someone walking along the roadway away from the mobile home.

A short time later, according to the report, the neighbor's wife looked outside again and saw smoke and flames coming from the double-wide mobile home, the report said.

An investigation by the Greene County Sheriff's Department is continuing.

Also responding to the fire scene, according to the sheriff's department, were a Greeneville Light & Power System crew and a disaster services unit from the Greene County Chapter of the American Red Cross.

In addition, a unit of the Greeneville Emergency & Rescue Squad responded to the fire scene to refill the air tanks of firefighters' emergency breathing apparatus.