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Police are investigating in Letcher County after a fire bomb was allegedly thrown at a home burning it to the ground. Police say it happened in the Cowan community on highway 931. A soldier, just returning from Iraq on Tuesday, was going there to meet his newborn daughter, but the home where his parents just finished her nursery is now gone. Neighbors say they spotted a suspicious car driving slowly through the neighborhood. Jim Burnett, a Kentucky State Police Arson Investigator says that some flammable liquid did get thrown on the front porch in the area of the front door Jeff and Vivian Roberts, along with two sons were home when police say they heard something hit the front door and immediately saw flames and then they were able to escaped out the back. The family went to meet soldier Zachary Roberts at the Knoxville Airport Tuesday afternoon to bring him home. Police say there were no signs of an anti-war motive. Police are searching for more details on the car and the two guys spotted at the crime scene. If you have any information you can call Kentucky State Police at 1-888-222-5555