JEROME, Idaho (KMVT-TV) Open insulation, broken boards, remnants of a home.

Pauline Patheal, Manager of Majestic Meadow Homes Mobile Homes says, "they lost furniture, clothes and things like that. They all needed to be replaced."

Pauline Patheal calls the January 3rd fire: a learning experience.

"I don't want to ever see it happen again," says Patheal.

Firefighters tell me the blaze started right where I'm standing in front of the wood fireplace.

Officials also say this home was built in 1971, prior to higher standards being set in 1976.

"Homes after '76 have safety features like insulation, using materials that don't propagate flames and smoke alarms and this one didn't have smoke alarms," says Jack Krill, Deputy Fire Chief, Jerome Fire Department.

Capt. Mitchell Brooks, Twin Falls Fire Department says, "the older ones pre–1976 when standards got more stringent, have more problems."

Luckily the family wasn't home at the time of the fire.

"Most trailers like this aren't standing after fire department leaves...This insulation is covered by just paperback material, which spread the fire from one end to the other." says Krill.

Pauline encourages all of her tenants to get mobile home insurance and to insure their contents.

Patheal says, "if there's a spark, they go real fast. You don't have much of a chance to save it at all."

Because you never know when a little spark could leave you without a home.