SAN ANTONIO – Tx \u2014 A mother says she is living in fear on the Southeast side after someone deliberately tried to burn down their duplex with them inside.<\/p>\n
The mother says she woke up to the smell of gasoline around 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning at her duplex on Gateway Dr. She woke up her niece who heard crackling and then saw flames coming from the back door.<\/p>\n
\u201cI looked and flames were coming through the door. She took my son and laid him down in the front and got the fire extinguisher put out the flames on the inside.\u201d<\/p>\n
The mother called 9-1-1 while her niece put out the flames. Once they made it outside her niece noticed a bottle with a rag sticking out of it on the A\/C unit. The mother then noticed they were several placed around her house.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo take the time out to make those and then set them around my house individually, I live in a duplex. They specifically chose my side. Out of every place on the block, they chose my place. That\u2019s why I feel like this is a targeted situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The woman said police told her the culprit only had time to ignite one of the bottles.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank God they only got to light the one in the back. The back door and the front door, those are my only entrance and exits. All my windows are blocked. We would\u2019ve been trapped.\u201d<\/p>\n
The mother says she\u2019s only lived in the duplex since February and has no idea who would want to hurt her family. The mother is asking anyone who has information or videos of her home being set on fire to contact the police.<\/p>\n