It was 5 a.m. Sunday when 91原创 resident Dawn Ritchot heard a loud banging on her front door.

It sounded like someone was trying to force their way inside.

Then it stopped.

She and her significant other, Ron Dreser, looked through their windows to see a man running away.

He was frantically banging on the doors of the houses near the intersection of 46 Avenue and 207A Street.

It wasn鈥檛 until they went outside that they realized the man was their neighbour, Eddie Dagg, and he was banging on their door because someone had set fire to their camping trailer and the trailer of a neighbour.

鈥淎ll I could hear was screaming,鈥� Ritchot said.

A voice was yelling 鈥渢he trailers are on fire.鈥�

Ritchot dialed 911 and loaded her eight-year-old son Brayden into her truck and backed away from the house, worried the trailer fire could spread to the house.

She also phoned her oldest son Curtis Ritchot, who made a beeline for his mother鈥檚 house and arrived in time to witness an 鈥渋nsane鈥� scene of police and firefighters and yellow tape cordoning off the fire scenes.

He counted at least three police cars and four fire trucks.

Curtis Ritchot is grateful for the man who alerted his neighbourhood.

鈥淚 was that close to burying my parents and because of Eddy I don鈥檛 have to,鈥� he said.

His mother said Dagg and her other neighbours tried to fight the fires but the burning propane tanks made it impossible.

鈥淭he whole sky lit up,鈥� she said.

鈥淭he flames were huge.鈥�

The blaze, fueled by the trailer propane tanks, brought local power lines down and they fell with loud popping and crashing sounds.

鈥淎ll we could do is stand back and watch,鈥� she said.

Because her trailer鈥檚 propane tanks were almost empty, the damage was relatively limited, but the tanks on the neighbour鈥檚 trailer were full.

There, the blaze gutted the trailer and fried a pickup truck next to it.

Heat from the burning trailer also melted the vinyl siding off the upper floor of the house.

The neighbours later learned that another trailer at another location not far away had also been damaged by a suspicious fire.

No one was injured, something Ritchot says is entirely because of Eddie Dagg, who she calls a 鈥渉ero among us鈥� for running past burning and potentially explosive propane tanks to warn his neighbours.

Dagg could not be reached for comment before The Times press deadline.

Police are asking anyone with information that might assist in identifying the suspect or suspects involved to call the 91原创 RCMP at 604-532-3200.

If you need to remain anonymous call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).