Leeds resident describes fire that damaged home

LEEDS, Utah (ABC4) — A Leeds woman woke up to flames blasting through her bedroom window after a weed burning incident got out of control.

Firefighters with Hurricane Valley Fire and Rescue say the home ignited after a man used a propane torch to burn weeds in his front yard. Within minutes, the flames climbed up the side of the house and into the attic.

Inside the home, Colleen Gardner was asleep when she woke up to flames just outside her window.

"I see these flames coming around the window, but not quite in," Gardner says. "And so I thought, 'what do you do?"

She had only seconds to react, grabbing a few valuables before running out as the fire grew.

"It was frantic," she says. "It's hard. It's hard to remember anything of it because it happened so fast."

And what's been left behi