KIRKLAND, Wash. – Four bodies were found inside a home that burned Monday in this east Seattle suburb.

The bodies, located upstairs in the home, were those of two adults and two children, Fire Marshal Grace Steuart said.

“They were all upstairs, and to tell you the truth we’re not exactly sure what all was upstairs because it was very, very heavily damaged,” she said.

The fire was reported about 11:30 a.m. near Forbes Lake.

Firefighters put out the blaze in about 30 minutes, but it took several hours before they could go inside the gutted building.

There was no immediate word on the victims’ identities or the cause of the fire.

Neighbors said the home was occupied by a woman and her two young sons. The family’s father is an Army reservist currently deployed in Iraq, they said.