The home of Eighth Congressional District candidate Darcy Burner, on the 3600 block of West Ames Lake Road between Redmond and Carnation, was destroyed in a fire which broke out sometime between 7 and 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday.

According to Burner’s campaign spokesperson Sandeep Kaushik, the cause of the fire is undetermined but the house is “a total loss — the roof is gone, the interior is gutted, the exterior walls are barely standing.”

Burner and her family are safe, he added: “They were in the house when it started. Her 5-year-old son, Henry, ran in and said, ‘Mommy, daddy, the house is on fire!’ and they saw the smoke and the smoke alarm went off.”

Burner, her husband Mike and son Henry will be staying with family friends in Redmond tonight. Henry was taken to be with some close friends as soon as possible after the family fled the burning home.

“In the first few hours afterward, the firefighters did a great job, but (Darcy’s) just been running on adrenaline and now wants to be with her family, so we’ll have to wait and see what is next,” Kaushik concluded.

Burner, a Democrat, was narrowly defeated in her 2006 run against Dave Reichert, R-Auburn. It is not yet known whether she will continue her current campaign against Repbulican Representative Reichert.