A Yakima family is counting their blessings after a fire destroyed a good portion of their home Sunday night.
Owners of a local business, Cascade Gardens, woke up to what they thought were the family pets at the back door, but turned out to be flames shooting through the back windows of their home.
"The next thing I know it's just too loud to ignore and I get up, open the doors to one of the rooms in the house, and it's just full of flames," homeowner Eileen Weresch told us.
The fire started just before 11:00 o'clock Sunday night. Eileen says she ran to one of the guest rooms at the back of the house where she found the fire spreading quickly, "It was definitely a lot of sparks, high into the sky, a lot of flames."
Firefighters told us the fire started in a chicken coop near the home, after a heat lamp inside the cage caught on fire and spread to the home.
No one was injured, something Eileen, her husband, and son are all thankful for, but it's definitely a wake up call.
"It makes me think about fire safety so believe me we've been checking all the Christmas lights, extension chords, just looking for anything that could be a potential fire hazard," Eileen said.