A fire Sunday night on County Road 4876 was ruled accidental and traced to the attic near a fireplace chimney.
Lampasas Fire Marshal Ronnie Withers said structural timber near the chimney in the attic may have gotten too hot after residents used an outdoor barbecue pit that vents into the chimney.
The residents and their pets got out of the structure before firefighters arrived from Copperas Cove Fi…