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MURRAY -- Crews put out a fire that destroyed a shed, greenhouse and heavily damaged a bedroom at a house in Murray Monday morning.
The woman who lives in the home near 4700 South and 400 West was asleep in the back bedroom around 5 a.m. when she heard crackling outside the window. She told KSL she pulled back the curtains to see the greenhouse behind her house engulfed in flames.
She alerted her husband, who was in the kitchen, her 15-year-old daughter, who was asleep in another bedroom, and got out of the house as quickly as possible.
"(My daughter) is in shock. She's upset. I'm just glad all of us are out," the woman said. "It was scary. It's an old house so I wasn't sure how fast it was going to (burn) or if we're going to be able to maintain it."
Smoke damage is reported through the entire home and a battalion chief says the family will not be allowed back inside for now.
The greenhouse contains a refrigerator. The family speculates that may have caused the fire, but investigators have not yet named a cause.
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