COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — Fire officials are ruling out arson as the cause of a large inferno at a home nestled behind a green at the Willow Creek Country Club in Cottonwood Heights last Thursday.

Unified Fire Authority spokesman Benjamin Porter said both UFA and the Sandy Fire Department responded to the home at 2945 Robidoux Road about noon and discovered heavy smoke and flames. All occupants were out of the house, including a dog and a cat.

“The dog was fine, the cat was unresponsive. Our crews were able to administer oxygen and revive the cat,” Porter said, adding that the cat has since been taken to a veterinary hospital.

Porter told KSL on Tuesday that investigators don’t suspect the fire was due to arson.

While officials have not yet determined what sparked the fire, Unified Fire Authority also offered an explanation regarding a video that captures what appears to be the roof of the home exploding.

“What they’re attributing that to is the amount of unburned particulates in the smoke; they just gathered together in that roof, like in the attic space, and when they got superheated, the smoke just combusted,” Porter said.

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Initially, the fire was too big to enter the home, so responders began attacking it from the outside. Porter said they were eventually able to make an entrance and clear “a portion” of the home, although there is still a portion that firefighters haven’t been able to access yet.

“This is going to be a big incident for a while,” Porter added.

Additionally, Porter said wildland units were dispatched to the area due to reports of the fire spreading to the grass around the house.