MORRISON – Jaclyn Coffman-Sumner and her husband, Chuck Sumner, let the time get away from them during a weekend shopping trip last month at Walmart, where they spent the better part of 3 hours.

Shortly after 7 p.m. Jan. 20, they returned with their 4- and 7-year-old sons to their Yorktown Road home east of Morrison. It was engulfed in flames. Firefighters already had arrived.

“It was so cold,” said Coffman-Sumner, 30, who works at the Morrison post office. “I felt so bad for the firemen. They had to truck in so much water.”