Residential fire displaces two families in Poway NBC 7 San Diego [Video]

Just before 6 a.m. on Friday, someone in the duplex on Sutter Mill Way spotted a fire outside one of the bedrooms. Within an hour, fire crews were able to put it out without any injuries, but not before it displaced two families

Now they’re just trying to make sense of what happened, neighbor Angela Bader told NBC 7.

“I was asleep, so I didn’t know about anything until about 8, when I saw the fire trucks out here,” Bader said. “They were using the hoses to get into the top of the house there… That poor family. I wonder what happened.”

Poway Fire chief Brian Mitchell told NBC 7 on Friday afternoon that the fire had been started at an exterior electrical outlet.

Bader said the electrical in the units is old in some cases.

“We have to be very careful, especially because the wiring in the house is …