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Early Morning Fire Guts Three Sea Pines Villas BY BEN CRITES, The Island Packet Published Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Three Sea Pines condominiums were destroyed early Tuesday morning in the largest fire on Hilton Head Island so far this year, according to the Hilton Head Island Fire and Rescue Division. Two people escaped one of the burning units by climbing from its balcony to the balcony of a unit that didn't catch fire, said

Condominium units 1418, 1419 and 1420 of South Beach Villas in Sea Pines were destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning. Jay Karr/The Island Packet

They were the only people inside the three affected South Beach Villas units when the blaze was discovered shortly before 3 a.m. Units 1418, 1419 and 1420 in the South Forest Beach Drive complex are considered a complete loss, Fister said.

Kenneth Campbell, 62, from Mason, Ohio, owns unit 1418, where he said his daughter and a friend were staying when the fire started.

Fister said Campbell's daughter, whose name was not provided, and her friend awoke early Tuesday morning to the smell of smoke. They got up, saw smoke in the hallway and headed to the balcony.

From there, they climbed to the balcony of unit 1417, which is separated from the three destroyed units by a fire wall.

Fister said they knocked on the sliding-glass door and alerted the occupants of the fire. All of them then escaped out the front door.

"They were still shook up when we talked to them," she said.

Campbell said his daughter did not want to talk about the fire, but he said he's thankful for the firefighters' response.

"I'm very pleased with the fire personnel and their interest in everybody here," he said. "Everybody has been very kind and extremely helpful."

A firefighter hurt his arm, but the minor injury is the only one sustained during the incident, Fister said.

At 4 p.m. Tuesday firefighters still were monitoring the charred skeletal remains of the condos for hot spots -- about 11 hours after the fire started.

Fire division investigators and insurance representatives are expected to meet Thursday to determine the cause of the fire and the amount of damage, Fister said.

Nine emergency vehicles -- four engines, a truck company and three medics -- and 26 emergency workers responded to the blaze at 3:04 a.m. It was controlled by 4:20 a.m., largely through the use of the ladder on Engine One, which allowed firefighters to attack the fire on the two-story units from higher up, Fister said.

The three condominiums were 75 percent engulfed when firefighters arrived. More than 100 square feet of brush was also on fire behind the condos, Fister said.

"This is the largest fire we've dealt with this year," she said. "Even though three units were lost, the crews did an excellent job of keeping the fire from spreading beyond the fire wall."