Two Early Morning Fires Damage Gaston County Homes

Fire crews in Gaston County put out two fires that broke out in people's homes early Monday morning.

Flames burned a house on the 2000 block of Bainbridge Street around 1:30 a.m.

Dorothy Camp owns the home and says her teenage son was looking for something under a bed with a lighter. The bed caught fire, and he could not extinguish it.

Firefighters say the back of the house is a total loss and estimate the damage around $50,000.

Everyone in the house made it out safely.

About 20 minutes later, crews responded to a fire on Crowder Ridge Lane.

An empty trailer caught fire, but no one was hurt.

Investigators are trying to find out how the fire started.