An early morning house fire at 5 Morgan Drive in Sandy Hook, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010. (Photo courtesy: Chief Bill Halstead, Newtown Fire Dept.)

Sandy Hook firefighters worked three hours to douse the intense fire.

"This morning around 4:30, I opened the dor and the garage was on fire," Bill Sullivan told News 8's Crystal Haynes, Sunday, November 14, 2010.

The biggest problem is water supply. There is no hydrants out here," said Chief Bill Halsted with the Sandy Hook Fire Dept.

Smoke after the fire was doused three hours after fire crews arrived.

The fire left nothing but the chimneys and foundation, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010. (Photo: News 8's Crystal Haynes)

An early morning house fire at 5 Morgan Drive in Sandy Hook, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010. (Photo courtesy: Chief Bill Halstead, Newtown Fire Dept.)
 

Smoke after the fire was doused three hours after fire crews arrived.

Firefighters say battling the flames was not easy. It took them three hours to knock it out.

The horse stable and the 30 horses on the property were not harmed in any way by the fire.

Owner Bill Sullivan (right) and neighbor Bob Neff talk with News 8's Crystal Haynes after a fire completely destroyed the Sullivan family's house, Nov. 14, 2010.

Two chimneys and the foundation is all that's left of the Sullivan family'shome.

News 8's Crystal Haynes says firefighters had to drag five inch hoses a half mile up the steep hill on a dead end street in Sandy Hook.

Two chimneys and the foundation is all that's left of the Sullivan's home.