LAKEHEAD -- Sixty-nine-year-old Barbara Boulanger's trailer home is tiny, but quaint.

Out front, an American flag hung lazily in the muggy heat of Tuesday morning. In the back, tomato plants, some nearly 6 feet tall, formed a surprisingly lush garden.

The only thing ruining the tranquility of Boulanger's tiny palace was the low roar of a generator.

"I got my house. I got my garden. I was happier than the blazes," she said. "Then they turned the power off."

Boulanger, along with the residents of about a dozen other trailers at Mrs. B's Salt Creek R.V. Resort, had been living without electricity since June 8.

Residents say that in November, the park's owners quit paying their energy and garbage bills as required in the residents' leases. Since June 8, they've suffered through record temperatures and food spoiling in warm refrigerators. Last weekend, temperatures in nearby Redding were reported as high as 117 degrees.

One woman, who has cancer, moved out because she couldn't take baking in her mobile home anymore.

The residents' power finally was turned back on Tuesday night, after Pacific Gas and Electric Co. granted them limited service because many are disabled.

PG&E spokeswoman Lisa Randle said the company has a lengthy notification process to tell residents their power is about to be shut off.

The utility company said the owners listed the account as commercial-industrial. PG&E notified the owners, but not the residents, that the bill was overdue, she said.

As soon as the company heard from residents, it turned the power back on.

"It's a very sad situation for customers," Randle said. "It's tragic they were without power that length of time."

But park residents are unsure how long they'll have electricity and fear the park will be closed, leaving them homeless. Teddy Boren, 49, who lives in a trailer near Boulanger, said the families living at the park pay $375 a month in space rent.

Power and garbage are included, according to a copy of Boren's lease.

"We've been paying rent," Boren said. "They haven't held up to their part of the deal."

Park owners Elizabeth and James Leep of Petaluma did not return phone calls Tuesday and Wednesday.

Boulanger, who's been serving as the park's manager, said that when the power first went off, the Leeps were cooperative and returned her phone calls.

They even promised to send money for a generator until the power could be restored, Boulanger said, but that never happened and the return phone calls stopped.

"What hurts me the most is that they lied to me," Boulanger said.

Residents banded together to buy a handful of generators to provide limited power to the park.

The cost has affected the residents' other expenditures -- namely, groceries.

Chris Solberg, program administrator for Redding Loaves and Fishes, said he went to the park over the weekend and brought the residents food.

"I saw extreme poverty up there," Solberg said. "It's torture up there in those temperatures."

Shasta County sheriff's deputy Mark Haslam traveled to the park last week to check on the residents. He said conditions were appalling.

"It's a bad situation," he said. "I feel sorry for them. I wish I could help them more."

Haslam said he also tried to contact the owners, but never received a response.

He predicts the park will be closed, and the residents, many of whom can't move their trailers, will struggle to find a place to live.

Boulanger said she's tired of the uncertainty and the frustration.

"This has been hell," she said.

Reporter Ryan Sabalow