Fireworks may have caused two fires at a mobile home park in West Valley City early Saturday, according to Assistant Fire Chief Kris Romijn.
One of those fires destroyed a mobile home in the 7000 West block of Arabian Way (2660 South). The blaze started in a car at the home about 12:15 a.m., and two witnesses reported seeing something that looked like fireworks under the car. The fire spread to the home and gutted it, causing between $60,000 and $100,000 worth of damage, including the car. It also caused radiant damage to a nearby home.
Two residents, women ages 40 and 58, got out of the house unharmed, but with little other than the clothes they were wearing. Two children who live there part of the time were not at home. The Red Cross provided shelter and will offer ongoing help, the agency said.
As firefighters were putting out that fire, another blaze started at a model mobile home about a block away, in the 7100 block of Apaloosa Drive (2610 South), Romijn said.
Firefighters found a spinning "flower"-style firework where the blaze started, inside a plastic box with informational flyers. That fire did about $1,000 worth of damage to the skirting around the base of the home.
The fires are being investigated as suspicious fires that are connected, Romijn said. There were no suspects yet.
