Jaimie Davis was doing what hundreds of other mothers in Glasgow do each night. She was going about the normal routine of putting her 14-month-old daughter, Jayedon, to bed and laying out the little girl’s clothes for the next day.

Then she looked out the window of an upstairs bedroom at 302A Leslie Ave. about 10 p.m. Thursday and saw flames.

Her husband, Brandon Davis, was downstairs and had heard what he described as a “boom,” but said he thought it was just a neighbor and ignored it. That was until Jaimie yelled out to him that the garage behind the home was on fire.

Brandon said he grabbed his cell phone and called 911 to report the blaze and was informed someone had already alerted the dispatcher.

“At least we have good neighbors, thank God,” Jaimie said.

She grabbed a blanket for the baby and they got out of the house and into the bitterly cold night of single-digit temperatures. After about an hour, the family was told by officials they could return, but Jaimie said she didn’t feel safe. They grabbed some clothes and spent the night at her mother’s home, she said. The Davises left their daughter in her grandmother’s care Friday morning while they tried to sort out what to do about insurance claims and other details in the fire’s aftermath.

Brandon had kept his 2006 Harley Davidson motorcycle in the garage. It was destroyed, along with some other “odds and ends” the couple had stored there. He said the book value on it was between $17,000 and $20,000 and he had only bought it about a year ago. Jaimie said she was just glad it was insured.

The couple rents from owner Cecil Glass of Glasgow. Glass had no comment about the damage to his building. The property includes a two-story duplex and two-story garage with a storage area on the second floor, according to a report from the Glasgow Fire Department. The garage was fully involved when firefighters arrived Thursday night. A Honda vehicle belonging to the residents of apartment B was also partially burned. Those occupants, a Hispanic family, according to the Davises, were not home at the time of the fire. Damage was estimated at $45,000 for the building and its contents, which were listed as a total loss.

More than the loss of property, the Davises are angry that someone would knowingly put their family in harm’s way.

“That makes me mad,” Jaimie said. “He endangered the life of me and my family.”

At 11:30 p.m. that same night, firefighters responded to a trash can fire behind 404 Leslie Ave., about a block away from the earlier fire. Breeze and Wendi King, the property owners, had extinguished it with a portable fire extinguisher before first responders arrived and the fire was contained to the trash receptacle, according to the GFD.

Glasgow police officers were in the area and observed a man running from the scene. They apprehended and arrested Stephen Lee Frazier, 29, of Glasgow. He has been charged with arson, third degree; fleeing or evading police; and resisting arrest.

“At least they caught him so it can’t happen to anybody else,” Jaimie Davis said Friday morning when she heard about the capture.

No injuries were reported from the fires and firefighters were at the fire scenes until about midnight.

The Glasgow Police Department, Barren-Metcalfe County EMS and Glasgow Street Department assisted the fire department at the scenes.

Thursday night’s fires have not been officially linked, as of yet, to a number of other arson cases that are being investigated by local and state officials. GPD public information officer Capt. Kent Keen said investigators will be looking into any possible connections between the fires.

Deaton family members, Wilburn and Brenda and their sons Christopher Deaton and Jeff Combs, who lived at 121 Cedar St., weren’t as lucky as the Davises. They have no home where they can return. An early Wednesday morning fire that officials are calling suspicious destroyed the residence they were renting from Junior Irwin of Glasgow.

Combs was at the fire department office Friday morning picking up an official incident report of the fire. He said his family has lost all their possessions.

“About 3 o’clock in the morning, I heard a loud pop, then more pops, and looked out the window and saw the garage on fire. We got out of the house with just the clothes on our backs,” he said. “My mom’s car was under the carport and was completely demolished.”

He said the damage to his car was about $2,500.

“We lost everything in the house, all of our clothes and everything,” he added. “There’s no telling how much we lost in the house – all the furniture with smoke and water damage.”

The American Red Cross had arranged for the family to stay at a local motel until Friday. Combs said the organization was trying to get that time extended and the family’s landlord was also trying to find another place for them to live.

He too, like the Davises, is angry at the person(s) who set the fire at his home.

“Anybody that’s crazy enough to set a house on fire isn’t going to care,” Combs said. “It could have very easily gone from an arson case to a murder case. It just boggles my mind, as close as that garage was to that house. They didn’t know who was inside.”