Outside reading

I read an article on a house burning. The Kramer family of Minnetonka was happily on vacation out of state over the holidays when they came home to an unsettling sight. Their house had burned down when they were out of town. They know that the fire had for sure started in the location of their laundry room area. Although, they are unsure why it erupted and how. Also, they have a feeling that, whatever it was that started the terrible fire had been lingering for a long while before that actual intense outbreak of fire engulfing their house in flames. The fire department attended the scene just in time to protect the other houses from any harm by creating a burier around the house to keep the harmful smoke and flames away form the neighboring houses. "The house was completely gutted and considered a total loss."
This is how the author of the article described this awful situation that the family has to deal with right at the end of all the holidays.