TOOELE — A fast-moving fire tore through a Tooele neighborhood Wednesday evening, destroying three sheds and damaging five homes. Crews arrived just after 6:30 p.m. to find flames shooting from a backyard.

Fire officials said the cause is still under investigation, but the homeowner believes netting from his awning may have blown onto a still-hot charcoal grill, sparking the blaze.

“I heard something pop in the backyard,” said John Lane, “I went out and our big shed was burning.”

Lane and his wife had finished dinner a couple of hours earlier when the fire broke out.

“It went real fast,” Lane said. “I was out there and those things started hissing — that’s when they started to explode,” he said.

Lane said propane tanks and a gas grill were near the shed. He tried to put out the flame

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