A destructive and fast-moving fire quickly consumed a family's home at a Spring Valley mobile home park Sunday evening, destroying the structure and sending towering flames into the sky.
Huge flames shot up over the 10000 block of Jamacha Boulevard Sunday evening around 7:45 p.m., Cal Fire said, prompting some neighbors to pick up some of their possessions and run.
"I said, 'Oh my God, it's fire in the house,' and (I) ran away I was so scared about it," Martha Zuniga, who lives next door, said.
The home burned extensively inside and out, but it did not spread to any other homes. San Miguel Fire officials quickly put out the flames.
Fire Investigators with the Sheriff's Bomb/Arson Unit believe the blaze was set intentionally. They said two young teens were seen fleeing the seen, though officials did not have a clear description of the teens. They escaped into a drainage culvert nearby.
No one was at home at the time of the fire; neighbors said the fire started outside of the home.
"She asked me if I'm able to see her furniture and if stuff was still there, and I told her from the looks of it, it's gone. She just said 'oh my Gosh,'" neighbor Marissa Alvarez recalled.
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Neighbor Charles Leflet tried to put out the fire.
"It was intense, the flames were about 30 to 40 feet in the air. It was hot, I had embers all over me," he said.
The Red Cross was called to help the affected family.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477. Callers will remain anonymous.
