The aftermath of a house fire off Vogleyville Road on Wednesday morning, April 12, after a fire Tuesday, April 11. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle

SUMMIT TWP — James Ward had remodeled 90% of the family home he bought from his great aunt in 2010, but all those improvements plus any hope of additional happy memories in the house went up in smoke Tuesday, April 11.

A two-alarm fire at the Ward family’s home on Vogleyville Road off Herman Road rendered the house a total loss.

An exhausted Ward said Wednesday, April 12, that his 22-year-old daughter, who is autistic, noticed something was amiss late Tuesday morning when she came down the stairs and looked in the sunroom on the back of the house.

“She told her mom something was wrong,” Ward said. “She was calm as heck about it.”