High winds and a fire from an abandoned home were a tragic combination Wednesday as flames jumped from rooftop to rooftop, leaving at least two senior citizens without homes and displacing many others.

Guadalupe Salinas, 66, stood by and watched in disbelief as the wind pushed the fire west from the abandoned house to her home on the 600 block of 7th Street. Her house was the first to catch fire.

"Everything I own is in there" she said. "All I have now are the cloths I have on my back," she said.

Salinas had been taking a nap when her two grandchildren, Jaqueline, 13, and Omar, 10, alerted her of the fire. They quickly got themselves out of the house as the fire next door swept through the wooden roof.

Firefighters arrived at 3:43 p.m. and immediately hosed the abandoned home and the eastside of Salinas' house as they tried to keep the flames at bay.

Delia Duron's home was the second house to catch fire. The flames from the abandoned house and Salinas' home next door rose in the sky and jumped onto Duron's rooftop.

The firefighters were now battling the fire not only at Salinas' home but also at Duron's home too. Globs of fire dropped from the ceiling to the floor.

Duron, 66, also stood by as firefighters hosed down the interior of her home.

"That house has been in the family since 1925," she said. "Many members of my family were born there. There were so many memories, so many photographs that are now gone."

Duron, who has been caring for a sick younger brother, had a Douglas police officer knock at her door and ordered them to leave the home.

By then the flames in the abandoned house were whipping 40 feet into the sky.

From those two homes, the flames jumped north toward 8th Street, where several apartments soon caught fire.

"In all, three homes, two apartments and two sheds caught fire," said Mark Wilkinson, a spokesman for the Douglas Fire Department.

Wilkinson said there were no injuries.

Arizona Public Service and Southwest Gas shut off power on the 600 block of 7th and 8th Street.

Octavio Bernal of 8th Street was also evacuated from his home.

"Right now I think a shed in my backyard caught fire," he said. Bernal said a police officer told him and his grandfather to leave the home.

Several citizens there said that many of the homes could have been saved had a fire hydrant on 8th Street and E Avenue, and a second hydrant on 7th Street and F Avenue were in operating condition.

"These hydrants are working. They just didn't have enough pressure," Wilkinson said.

Firefighters from across the county such as Bisbee Fire, Fry Fire, Elfrida Fire, Pirtleville Fire and Sunnyside Fire arrived to Douglas to help their colleagues battle the flames that swept through nearly a third of a city block.

As the fire raged on Douglas residents and the City of Douglas mobilized and prepared aid stations for the displaced families.

Many local businesses and restaurants donated food and water for the families, the firefighters and police officers. The aid providers set up a table with food, water on 7th Street and E Avenue.

By midnight, the firefighters were still looking for and spraying down hotspots throughout the burnt neighborhood.

Wilkinson said fire investigators are suspecting arson as the main reason for the fire. By early evening a Douglas man was questioned.

Police and fire investigators will continue their investigation, Wilkinson said.