ELLICOTT, COLO. -- Fire crews will spend another night at a mobile home salvage lot in Ellicott after a fire that started on Wednesday flared up Thursday.

"We had more flames come up, the wind agitated the fire back up," Ellicott Fire Chief Nellie Roop said.  "Right now we're foaming it using a high-expansion foam and hopefully that will keep it down.  The foam acts as a smothering agent, it takes away some of the elements of the fire and suffocates it."

Investigators haven't released the cause of the fire, but Ron Bray, who owns the mobile home business, said workers were using a torch to take apart one of the units, and that's how it started.  It quickly spread.

"Mobile homes, most of them are made of wood and combustibles so therefore it just took off," Roop said.  "Plus the wind was extremely high.  I was one of the first ones in here, I got here in a matter of minutes, and it was going so fast there was just no catching it, it was hard to contain, but with everyone that came up here, that was great."

She said 22 different agencies responded, from as far away as Limon.  Forty or 50 old mobile homes burned.

"There was literally hundreds of mobile homes parked two or three feet apart, and so when they ignited, it just started jumping from one to the other, very rapidly," Roop said.

Bray said he estimates that there's $150,000 in damage, and he doesn't have insurance.  He said he plans to start selling new mobile homes on the site, in addition to the parts and salvage items he sells currently.

There were rumors about a meth lab exploding on the property, but property owner Chuck Howarth said that's not true.  He did say police found a meth lab on the property in 2001 and dismantled it.