A mobile home at 15586 Shaw Road was destroyed in an early morning fire Wednesday in western Limestone County, displacing a mother, her children and their uncle.

Heather Hamilton and her family were asleep Wednesday morning in their mobile home at 15586 Shaw Road when the sound of neighbors pounding on the door woke them.

It was around midnight when neighbors woke Hamilton to say there were flames visible through a window of the home. Hamilton said she ran to get water, but by the time she got back to the room, it was full of smoke and flames.

She told her four kids to get outside immediately.

Hamilton then ran to her room to grab her phone and a pair of shoes. Her daughter followed to see if she was OK. Hamilton said by the time she and her daughter went to exit the room, flames were making their way down the hallway and into the bedroom.

They tried to exit through the back door of the trailer, but they couldn’t get it to open, she said.

“We couldn’t get out,” she said.

Hamilton and her daughter started yelling, kicking and banging on the back door. She feels fortunate someone heard her. Neighbors worked together to pull the door open and get the mother and daughter out of the mobile home.

That’s when the volunteer fire departments and emergency responders arrived, she said, but it was too late.

“It was a total loss,” Pleasant Grove Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jason Brackeen said.

Brackeen’s department was called to back up Clements and Owens volunteer fire departments, who also worked the scene near the Coxey and Ripley communities. He said Clements Volunteer Fire Department returned to the scene around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning when the fire rekindled.

Bob Rolf said the American Red Cross was also on the scene Wednesday to assist the family of six, which included Hamilton, four children and an uncle. Hamilton said Red Cross was helping her family with a temporary place to stay.

“We are needing help with everything,” Hamilton said.

The family, which has lived in the area less than a year, doesn’t know a lot of people in the community. Hamilton’s children attend Clements High School, and she said they don’t have their everyday items like jackets, sweaters and shoes.

“They ran out in what they were wearing,” she said. “… We’ve literally lost everything we had.”

Anyone who would like to help Hamilton and her family can reach her at 256-216-7192.