HOUSTON—Residents of the Spring Forest apartments awoke to another fire Friday morning.

Last Friday, a two-alarm fire gutted 12 units at the complex.  Investigators determined that blaze to be the work of an arsonist. Henry Ribera was seriously hurt when he jumped from a second floor window.

“Holding the gutters from above all my ligaments got cut off and then because of jumping I got a compound fracture in my back. I can still walk. I can feel everything,” said Ribera.

The latest fire broke out about 20 feet from where the first fire was set. 

The call came in around 4:45 a.m., HFD District Chief Tommy Dowdy said.

“(There was) heavy fire coming out of the building. There were some bars around the building, some fences they had to cut to make access,” Dowdy said. “Same thing happened, really, last Friday.”

As the blaze grew to three alarms, parts of a wall and the roof of the burning building collapsed.

“Once the inner support burns away, which it does in these heavy fires, there’s nothing to hold the bricks up,” Dowdy said.

At least six units were completely destroyed, but no one was injured.

Marisa Medrano said the fire was burning a few doors down from her family's apartment.

“Big black smoke started coming through my vents and my window and I heard my neighbors pounding on my backdoor,” she said.

The fire was getting worse and Medrano had kids and pets inside.

“I started yelling there’s a fire, grabbed my kids and ran out,” said Medrano.

She and her children survived the fire, but her cat did not.

Medrano said she grabbed a few things, but lost her home and most of her belongings.

"Regardless if they have something against the managers or somebody else in the apartments, it's not just one person they're affecting. They're affecting a lot of families that are just trying to work and get by and raise their kids here. We lost a pet, but it could have been worse, we could have lost, God forbid, one of the children. You know all because somebody's careless and has a total disregard for human life," said Medrano.

“I would say this is definitely a suspicious circumstance,” Dowdy said.

Firefighters at the scene had the situation under control by 6:30 a.m., but they were still working to put out hot spots.

The complex is located in the 6000 block of Bissonnet in Houston.