Ella Steele, 84, is comforted by her daughter Pam Limon at a neighbors' house after Steele's home of 28 years burned this morning. Steele was uninjured after being rescued by employees of Lake Contracting, a company about a block west.

Ella Steele counts herself lucky that two men from down the street smelled smoke around 9 a.m. this morning and rescued her from her burning mobile home at Mercelina trailer park. The 84-year-old was sitting at her kitchen tabl . . .