Angela Carver was spending a relaxing night with her family by a crackling fire, inside her home on the southeast side, Saturday. It was around 8:30 p.m. when she uploaded a picture of her fireplace to Facebook with the caption "Enjoying a quiet evening at home." Around 30 minutes later, that tranquility went up in smoke.
"We discovered that light there," said Carver, pointing to a charred light fixture near the chimney's flue, "there was some white smoke starting to come out."
Checking outside, Carver's husband spotted the top of the chimney was glowing, red hot. The family called 911. Meanwhile, flames were quickly spreading through the top of the home, igniting the fluffy insulation above the ceiling.
Emergency crews arrived before the fire overtook the house, but firefighters had to rip apart the structure to douse the flames.