history: Last year we lost our home of 20 years to a house fire. We lost all of our belongings but thankfully nobody was hurt.  Last year we lost our home of 20 years to a house fire.  Oh no!  I can't even imagine that - was everyone ok? Yes_comma_ thankfully everybody was safe. Nobody was even home when it happened. 
current: I'm so glad that everyone was ok.  But I know that was devastating - did you rebuild?
next: No, we just bought another house closer to town. It was sad losing everything that we had. 