A home said to be over 100 years old went up in flames at the intersection of 15th street and Elm Avenue around 6:45 p.m. on June 25, 2017.

According to neighbors, there were three women that rented the house but only two were home when the fire started. The fire reportedly began in the bushes near the home and then quickly spread to the porch.

One neighbor heard a loud scream coming from the home and ran outside to see what was wrong.

“My first instinct was to make it stop, put it out and get them out,” next-door neighbor Blaise Davis said.

Davis grabbed a fire extinguisher out of his truck and began to douse the front porch. He yelled at the women to get out and could see that the front window was starting to break so he grabbed his garden hose and began spraying off their property.

“We left our son inside and told him to stay in the house. When I returned 2 minutes later, the screen door was almost too hot to touch,” said Jessica Riggs, who lives in the house next door.

Both women barely had time to get themselves out of the home, let alone their animals and belongings.

“The home was over a hundred years old and within 4 minutes the entire house was in flames,” Riggs said.

According to Dirk Clingman, the PIO for the Grand Junction Fire Department, there are ways you can prepare for fire emergencies.

“Have smoke detectors and be aware of what it takes to make a fire grow. As you evacuate a structure, you need to be shutting doors behind you in your home because it limits oxygen, limits fuel, and it limits the spread of heat,” Clingman said.

The women who were renting the home owned 2 cats that did not make it out of the flames.

Authorities and neighbors do not yet know the cause of the fire.

Neighbors say the plan is to rebuild the home, but they do not know when or how long it will take.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the family that lost their belongings and lifetime of memories in this tragic fire: https://www.gofundme.com/rocker-twins-fire-loss