HENRY COUNTY (WSLS 10) - "My two uncles, my dad, and my uncle Rodney," Amber Eanes said, pointing to each person respectively as she held a picture of them in her hands.
Amber Eanes thought this photograph had been destroyed in the fire. But, as fate would have it a firefighter found it and another photograph buried in what remained of her grandmother's home after the fire.
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The frame was badly burned, but the picture was untouched.
"I was just telling my husband on the way here this morning that I hadn't had time to get a copy of that one made," Eanes said, explaining why the photograph means so much to her. "It has my father in it, who passed when I was young."
Her grandmother, 79 year old Frances Willis, and her grandmother's two dogs died in the fire.
Patrick Henry Fire Department's Chief, Donald Turner, says the fire started just inside the front door, but the fire marshal's office is still trying to figure out what caused it.
"At first, we had to do our initial attack from outside. The first truck that arrived didn't have enough man power at that time to do an interior attack," Chief Turner explained.
Willis was found in her bed in her bedroom. Chief Turner says he's not sure if the home had smoke detectors, but Eanes says she's sure it did.
Willis's granddaughter says the news of her grandmother's death was overwhelming.
"I hyperventilated a little bit," Eanes said, recalling her initial reaction to the phone call she received regarding the fire. "They called me about four something this morning...I came to the edge of the property and I froze. I didn't know how to react."
Not only did she lose her grandmother, she lost her childhood home. She says her grandmother raised her and she has lived in or near this home her entire life.
She says she will remember her grandmother most for her positive personality and how smart she was.
An autopsy is being conducted on the body to determine an official cause of death.