Midtown Sacramento neighbors on edge after alley fire [Video]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Neighbors in midtown Sacramento are on edge after a fast-moving fire threatened their homes Monday afternoon.

The fire by 27th and E streets in midtown was spotted by an ABC10 photographer from the Business 80 freeway.

“I was ready to cook in the kitchen and I heard ‘pop, pop, pop,'” said Bob Saari, who lives nearby.

The popping noise prompted Saari to run out of his house and see what was causing it.

“It was the fire-burning electrical wires. Electrical wires then snapped and whipped across the alley and started burning the other two buildings here,” said Saari.

He was afraid his garage and home just a few feet away would also catch fire. Another neighbor says she stopped in her tracks after seeing the black smoke coming up near her daughter’s home.

“When I came back, the fire department was in …