EAST BRADY, Clarion County — Just days after opening Christmas gifts, the Mike and Stacey Slaughenhoupt family lost everything to an apparent electrical fire this morning.

Flames, smoke, water and ash filled the Slaughenhoupt’s two-and-a-half story house at 805 First Ave.

Everyone made it out safely, including the family pit bull dog.

“With just the clothes on our back,” said Stacey Slaughenhoupt, 46.

Because school still is on holiday break, and there was a run of flu in the family, the house was full of people in the morning, including Stacey Slaughenhoupt, who works in the Karns City High School cafeteria.

Also home were her husband, Mike, who works for Bradys Bend Township but was home ill; her 5-year-old twin boys; her 7-year-old son and her 17-year-old daughter. Her mother, 78-year-old Marge Bailey, lives in the basement and also was home.

“It’s bad,” said East Brady Fire Chief Philip Beabout, who noted that by the time the first responders arrived, the rear of the home, where the bathroom is located, already was engulfed in flames.

“Flames were rolling out the windows pretty good,” he said.

Stacey Slaughenhoupt said the family’s insurance was paying for them to spend a night at a Holiday Inn. But after that, she was unsure where everyone would live.

The house has been her mother’s home since the 1960s. Stacey Slaughenhoupt moved back only about four years ago to help out her mother when her father died.

“This is the house where I grew up,” she said. “And it’s gutted, It’s unlivable.”