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Samantha Hayes and Lance Bandley Reporting A Salt Lake City family is without a home tonight. Someone torched their house and injured their daughter.
If you lock your doors and live in a quiet neighborhood, you probably have an expectation of safety. So did this family. Now that feeling has been shattered.
When the sun came up they could finally make some sense of what happened. The corner of their couch is scorched by a gas bomb thrown through the front window. In the dark, at 3:00am, it was chaos.
David Avila, Lives downstairs: "Panic, panic at first. And we really don't have any enemies."
Of course, neither did the three-year old little girl, an innocent victim sleeping on the couch when it happened.
The family is not waiting to find out. Hours after this attack, they loaded up mattresses and other belongings and left.
Lt. Kevin Joiner, Salt Lake City Police Dept.: "Very close call. W're feeling really fortunate this little girl came away with just some singed hair."
The family rents the upstairs floor of the house. David Avila and three of his friends rent the downstairs.
David Avila, Lives downstairs: "We were downstairs and heard them yelling and screaming. So we took off upstairs and saw the fire. We tried to help put the fire out with a garden hose."
Avila says he and his roommates are planning to move out too.
Police say no suspects have been identified yet and it's unclear why this house was targeted.
