Ft. Oglethorpe Fire Leaves 4 Homeless

Clifford and Cheryl Johnson will not be celebrating the 4th of July with the rest of us.

They say they've had all the fireworks they can handle.

"I think we'd have died. Every one of us," says Cheryl Johnson.

"It went up in a matter of minutes, the whole house engulfed in flames," adds Cheryl's husband Clifford.

If Cheryl had not been awake in the middle of the night, the Johnson's believe they would have lost a lot more than a home.

67 Cloud Springs Road lit up the night sky around 3:30 Friday morning.

The Johnson's and another couple escaped just minutes before it turned into a two-story inferno.

"I was in there watching a movie and all of a sudden I heard a bunch of popping and I heard an explosion and I went to open the back door in the kitchen and the smoke came in and I went to get everybody out and the house went up," says Cheryl.

"My wife woke me up there and I woke up and heard something cracking and popping above the window there it was glowing red," says Clifford.

The fire is blamed on an electrical short.

All the Johnson's are left with are the clothes on their back.

"Everything is gone. Everything we owned. Everything that the guy that owned the house is gone," says Cheryl.