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A Mountain View resident died in a mobile home fire on Saturday, Aug. 17. Courtesy Mountain View Fire Department.

The person who died in a mobile home fire in Mountain View on Saturday morning has been identified by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office.

The resident was identified as Erikh Nudelman, 86, a Mountain View resident. The cause of death is still pending as of Wednesday morning, according to the coroner’s office.

The fire broke out in the mobile home unit at the Moffett Mobile Home Park in the early morning of Aug. 17. Firefighters entered the burning home and found a person inside, later identified as Nudelman, who was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a statement by the Mountain View Fire Department.

The home was destroyed by the fire, but firefighters managed to stop it from spreading to neighboring residences. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to the statement.

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Emily Margaretten joined the Mountain View Voice in 2023 as a reporter covering politics and housing. She was previously a staff writer at The Guardsman and a freelance writer for several local publications,...

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  1. Poor old guy. RIP

    I’d bet No Fire Suppression Sprinklers!

    “Most schools built since the late 1970s are
    required to have sprinkler systems and use safer construc-
    tion materials.”[]
    /// Just like the local pK-8 school district leaders have ‘decided’ NO RETROFIT of older school permanent classrooms (Imai, Bubb, Landels, Mistral, Theuerkauf, and Monta Loma) ’cause The SUPER needs to have his District Office building ‘walls-moved’ remodeled yet again. (:
    But 🙂 the Google-run “The Woods” complete preschool that MVWSD will ‘get back from Lease’ 🙁 already has all the classroom & other buildings? retrofitted with fire suppression sprinklers. Heavens to Betsy / that’s part of what those guys did with $10M in original remodel.

    Of the design drawings I checked of the new school buildings ‘during my watch’ they all seemed to have Division of the State Architect approved fire suppression sprinklers. Can’t say I 100% checked this for all new builds since then (ones like Castro, Stevenson, Vargas, Castro)
    https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2012/11/21/new-board-member-pushes-for-fire-sprinklers/
    [] Topical Fire Research Series / FEMA /Vol. 8 #1, Aug 2007

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