A home was destroyed by fire Saturday in Warren County.

The 19-year home of Steve and Rhea Ann Hugley, 1585 Mosley Gap Road, was a total loss after a fire spread through it this weekend, Culkin Volunteer Fire Department Chief Lamar Frederick said.

At 4:36 p.m. Saturday, the Hugley’s daughter Robin Greer called 911 when she, her children and her mother came back to the house after spending the afternoon working on the family’s property to find flames and smoke.

After she called 911, Greer drove back the family’s land to get her father who was on a tractor. By the time the family returned to the house it was engulfed in flames, and Greer called her husband. Then Greer and her father began moving the family’s vehicles away from the home to safety.

She said the county volunteer fire departments arrived soon.

“It felt like forever,” Greer said, but after she checked her watch she realized firefighter were on scene in less than 15 minutes.

Crews from Culkin, Bovina and Fisher Ferry were on scene to douse the blaze, which took 30 minutes to and an hour to control and two hours to extinguish, Frederick said.

“When we got there, it was fully involved,” he said. “There wasn’t no saving anything.”

All the family’s belongings were lost, and three pets died in the blaze.

“We had the clothes left on our back; that’s what we had left,” Steve Hugley said.

Greer said it is believed to have been and electrical fire from a window air-conditioning unit that cause the blaze, but Frederick said he is unsure of the exact cause.

The Hugleys have purchased a new doublewide that they are working to hook up in a different location on their property. The couple hopes to be in the home by the weekend. Until then, they are staying with their daughter’s family.

“It’s just one of those things in life that happen,” Steve Hugley said. “We’re still alive, and we can start over. Build more memories.”

Greer said her parents have received donated furniture. The Hugley’s son, Steven, said the support he has seen from the community is remarkable.

“One thing that I learned in this whole tragedy is whenever something like this happens, you find out exactly who’s in your corner. I can say that mom and dad are very blessed in the fact that they have a lot of people in their corner,” Steven said. “The outpouring of love has been amazing. God is good all the time. Even in tragedies like this he finds a way to show his light.”