It's a sight no one wants to see, especially after being out of town

on vacation.

On Monday night, the home of Roger Duncan at 1451 Bob Smith Road went up

in flames. Coweta County Fire Chief Dennis Hammond said his department received

a call from a neighbor at 2:30 a.m. that the home was ablaze.

"We got there shortly after the call. We had to go a little slower

because a driving rain storm was coming down," he said.

The department tried to save the home, but it was too far gone and will

probably be totalled, said Hammond.

Neighbors said the Duncans were out of town for the Labor Day holiday and

returned home Tuesday to find their home destroyed.

With the storm blowing, next door neighbor Liz Linnell said that she never

heard fire trucks, smelt smoke or saw flames.

Hammond said the cause of the fire is still under investigation by the Coweta

County Fire Marshal.