A fire ripped through two homes and the manager's office in a Prince George trailer park before firefighters were able to bring it under control early Tuesday morning.
Coltin York lives with his grandmother across the street from where the blaze broke out in the tightly-packed Sunrise Valley Mobile Home Park off Lansdowne Road.
"She kind of woke up and noticed that it was orange and a couple minutes later she looked outside and noticed that everything was on fire," York said Tuesday afternoon as he looked at the aftermath.
It appears the fire started in a home next to the manager's office that's been unoccupied for about a month or so. York said there had been talk of converting it into a community centre.
"By the time I came out it was already fully ablaze," York said.
Within a few minutes the fire had spread to an adjacent home but by then its occupants were outside. York credited a neighbour for calling that home and warning them a fire had erupted. That home remained standing but thoroughly gutted.
"I helped whoever I could," York said. "We had some blankets and stuff...I ran them over for them. Tried to make sure all the animals were out of house and everything."
It also struck the manager's office leaving about half that building a blackened mess with the windows blown out and debris covering the rest. Another home on the other side of the one where the fire appears to have started was severely singed on one side.
A restoration crew was on the scene by early afternoon. Damage was estimated $100,000.
