Fire burns 2 homes near 29th Avenue, Bethany Home Road in Phoenix

PHOENIX - "It's just a nightmare," Ty Aldridge said.

Aldridge is still coming to terms with what happened to him very early this morning at his house near 29th Avenue and Bethany Home Road.

"I was sleeping and I woke up and saw a big ol' glow in my bedroom window and then all of a sudden, it just hit me it was a fire," he said.

He ran outside and that's when he saw that his neighbor's house was also on fire. The intense flames jumped from their house to his.

"I ran outside and I saw theirs. I turned the hose on, but it was too late," he said.

Firefighters were quickly able to put out the flames, but it was pretty dicey at the beginning when they had to fight not one, but two house fires at the same time.

"Now you've got an engine company on scene and you've got two house fires going on at the same time -- split the crew, started putting water on the first fire and they wanted to make a quick search and rescue of the second home," Phoenix Fire Capt. Rob McDade said.

The good news is everyone made it out safely.

As for Aldridge, he's just upset his home of close to 22 years will likely have to be rebuilt.

"I was working on things -- my windows were going to be my last project before my backyard," he said. "I guess there's going to be a lot more than a project now."