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07-01-2008, 12:22 PM
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008027474_webfire01m.html
Eighth Congressional District candidate Darcy Burner's Eastside home went up in flames today. The fire started between 7 and 7:30 a.m. on the 3600 block...
By Sonia Krishnan and Peyton Whitely
Seattle Times staff reporters
Eighth Congressional District candidate Darcy Burner's Eastside home went up in flames today.
The fire started between 7 and 7:30 a.m. on the 3600 block of West Ames Lake Drive Northeast near Redmond, fire authorities said.
The cause of the blaze remains unknown.
Burner, 37, a Democrat, is running against Republican Rep. Dave Reichert.
At midmorning, Burner, wearing a gray T-shirt, looked at the smoldering remains of her house on the Ames Lake waterfront.
Her 5-year-old son, Henry, came into her and her husband's bedroom around 7 a.m. screaming there was a fire in his room, Burner said.
"I scooped him up and got him out of the house," she said. Everyone, including the family's golden retriever Bruce Wayne, made it out uninjured, but their cat did not survive.
Sandeep Kaushik, Burner's spokesman, said the house is "seriously damaged." No plans have been made as to where they're going to stay
"They're just figuring it all out," he said.
Burner said the house was originally a cabin on the lake dating to about the 1950s and had been remodeled several times. Her family had lived there since 2002.
We'll see how long it takes for the tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists to come out of the woodwork and start blaming Reichert for this...
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Eighth Congressional District candidate Darcy Burner's Eastside home went up in flames today. The fire started between 7 and 7:30 a.m. on the 3600 block...
By Sonia Krishnan and Peyton Whitely
Seattle Times staff reporters
Eighth Congressional District candidate Darcy Burner's Eastside home went up in flames today.
The fire started between 7 and 7:30 a.m. on the 3600 block of West Ames Lake Drive Northeast near Redmond, fire authorities said.
The cause of the blaze remains unknown.
Burner, 37, a Democrat, is running against Republican Rep. Dave Reichert.
At midmorning, Burner, wearing a gray T-shirt, looked at the smoldering remains of her house on the Ames Lake waterfront.
Her 5-year-old son, Henry, came into her and her husband's bedroom around 7 a.m. screaming there was a fire in his room, Burner said.
"I scooped him up and got him out of the house," she said. Everyone, including the family's golden retriever Bruce Wayne, made it out uninjured, but their cat did not survive.
Sandeep Kaushik, Burner's spokesman, said the house is "seriously damaged." No plans have been made as to where they're going to stay
"They're just figuring it all out," he said.
Burner said the house was originally a cabin on the lake dating to about the 1950s and had been remodeled several times. Her family had lived there since 2002.
We'll see how long it takes for the tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists to come out of the woodwork and start blaming Reichert for this...
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cewl