SELINSGROVE — Jessica Caraballo had fallen asleep while watching television with her son in the Sand Hill Road apartment they share with her asthmatic mother, her father, who is recuperating from triple-bypass surgery, and six children who are in her custody.

That’s when her son noticed bright lights outside the window, near a storage shed and three family vehicles, one of which contained Christmas presents Caraballo had just bought.

She saw flames.

They “were really high,” she said.

Then the heat from the blaze shattered her windows and melted the window panes.

Inside the storage shed were bikes, her son’s four-wheeler, scooters belonging to her mother, and books and clothing Caraballo was intending to donate to local charities.

“It’s all gone,” she said.

As are the Christmas presents and the family’s three vehicles, an estimated loss of $30,000.

“You work so hard, and it’s all gone in two minutes,” Caraballo said.

The fire Tuesday night was one of four authorities believe was intentionally set in an eight-hour period in Selinsgrove.

A motorist observed trash and leaves burning inside a garage on West Spruce Street, across from 310 W. Spruce St., at 9:20 p.m. Fire crews quickly extinguished the blaze and prevented major damage.

Ten minutes later, at 411 W. Snyder St. — a little more than a quarter-mile away — residents noticed a plastic trash can had been set afire outside the rear of the house. The blaze was put out before major damage occurred.

One mile away and one hour later, Caraballo’s son noticed bright lights outside the window.

That blaze consumed the family’s 1998 Ford Explorer, a 1998 Ford Taurus, and a Plymouth Voyager minivan.

Also destroyed in the blaze was a Chevrolet Chevelle and a Ford Ranger.