Firefighters battled two fires in the Stratmoor Valley neighborhood of Colorado Springs Thursday evening.

The first fire was reported at a home in the 1600 block of Maxwell Street and the second was at a mobile home in the 1200 block of Sherwood Lane. The two structures are about a three-minute drive apart.

When 11 News arrived at Maxwell Street, fire smoke was visible and it appeared there was heavy damage. When crews got to the 1200 block of Sherwood Lane, there were still flames about 6 feet tall.

The fire department said no one was inside either home when the fires broke out and no injuries were reported.

11 News later learned the house on Maxwell Street belongs to a soldier. Half the home is destroyed, but the entire residence is unlivable. The fire department is investigating it as suspicious.

"We do not know the origin as of right now," said Chief Jeremy Bullard with the Stratmoor Division. "It is being investigated by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office."

The mobile home that burned about 20 minutes later on Sherwood Lane was owned by a firefighter. That house is now completely destroyed. Investigators believe the cause of the fire was an electrical issue.

"The other was our firefighter who was at the fire station when actually dispatching the first fire call, and then was notified that the second fire call was his residence," said Bullard.

Firefighters had challenges fighting both fires with fire hydrant issues.

"We did have a problem with the water source with the cold weather, trouble with the water," said Bullard. "With these trailers, the metal roofs have a tendency to collapse in causing voids that we have to really work around to get water to them. So that took us a while to get the little, hidden fires."

The causes remain under investigation for the home in the 1600 block of Maxwell by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office.

If you would like to help out the firefighter who lost everything in the fire off of Sherwood, you can donate to the Gofundme account, verified by the Stratmoor Hills Fire Department