VIDALIA — Twenty-three abandoned mobile homes burned to the ground in an early morning fire Monday. Arson is considered a possible cause, officials said.

The Concordia Fire District No. 2 responded to the fire call on Leo Ivy Road at approximately 6 a.m., District Fire Chief Nolen Cothren said.

When they arrived on the scene, they were greeted with the sight of nearly two dozen trailers in full blaze. In addition to trying to kill the blaze, Cothren said efforts were concentrated on containing the fire to the site and not allowing it to spread to nearby houses or the Fruit of the Loom industrial site.

“It was like five acres of fire,” Cothren said. “Everything burned.”

The owner of the mobile homes, who Cothren said has died in the last year, had used them for storage for a business.

“The family has been going through some of the stuff, trying to clean it up, but they lost everything that was (on the property),” Cothren said.

The fire chief said the district is investigating the incident as a possible arson. This isn’t the first fire at the site the district has responded to in recent months, and Cothren said a juvenile was seen in the area prior to the fire.