Peggy Price  (Bertalotto / Masso) - September 9, 2020

Family members are grieving Wyatt Tofte and Peggy Mosso, the 13-year-old boy and his grandmother found dead Wednesday,two days after a wildfire ravaged their home.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Wednesday night that one person, a teenage boy, had been found dead in the blaze, along with a dog. The agency would not confirm the death of a second person, but Lonnie Bertalotto — Mosso’s son and Wyatt’s uncle — confirmed his mother and nephew were both killed.

Bertalotto and other relatives remembered both Wyatt and Mosso as people who loved their family and would have done anything for them.

Bertalotto said the fire was not even a concern for his relatives early Monday night. The flames were about 15 miles away from Mosso’s home near Lyons, a rural Linn County town. Mosso lived in a house in the hills about five miles off the highway withWyatt and his parents, Chris Tofte and Angie Mosso.

“They hadn’t been told to evacuate,” Bertalotto said. “They weren’t under level 1,” he said, referencing the lowest-level, “get ready” evacuation warning.

He said Chris Tofte, Wyatt’s father, decided to go and get a trailer in case the family home was put under evacuation orders.

“By the time he got back with the trailer, down at the highway they had stopped traffic. The fire had gone that quick,” Bertalotto said. “He couldn’t go up the hill, he couldn’t do anything.”

Bertalotto said the family still doesn’t have the exact details of what happened, but they believe Angie Mosso, Peggy Mosso and Wyatt tried to escape as the flames arrived. Chris Tofte found Angie Mosso on the road, alive. He also found another man, badly burned but alive. The two were flown by helicopter to a hospital, Bertalotto said.

As far as what happened to his mom and nephew, Bertalotto said it’s still not entirely clear.

“The car was on the property," Bertalotto said. "Wyatt was in the driver’s seat and mom was in the passenger’s. We believe Wyatt was running down the hill, and came back to get his grandma and couldn’t get her out of the car. She had a broken knee and was immobile.”

Bertalotto said his sister, Angie Mosso, is at Legacy Oregon Burn Center in Portland, and is not yet awake or conscious. The hospital confirmed she remains in critical condition.

Susan Vaslev, Wyatt’s great aunt, said the family learned that Tofte initially didn’t recognize his wife when he came across her in the middle of the road because she was so badly burned. He came across her after first encountering another unidentified man who was badly burned, Vaslev told The Oregonian/OregonLive.

The Salem Statesman-Journal posted a devastating narrativestory late Thursday that confirmed that horror, describing that Angie Mosso had walked more than three miles down the scorching asphalt before being spotted by her husband.

According to the paper, Angie Mosso cared for her mother, Peggy Mosso, for a decade. Wyatt and the family’s 200-pound Bullmastiff mix were found dead in a vehicle, the paper reported.

Roger Tofte, 90, said he had a special spot in his heart for his great-grandson Wyatt. Tofte said Wyatt liked to fish and play video games.

“He was just a wonderful little kid," he said. "It didn’t come any better than that.”

He recalled when the boy and his family were living in Scio several years ago, his school took a field trip to Tofte’sEnchanted Forest amusement park south of Salem.

Roger Tofte said he displays a picture with Wyatt from that visit in his office. “That was quite a special day for us,” he recalled.

He said his grandson Chris Tofte, Wyatt’s father, came to visit him and share the news.

“We’re all just kind of devastated and can’t seem to get it out of our minds, what happened,” he said.

Vaslev, who is Roger Tofte’s daughter, said her father shared a special relationship with Wyatt.

“It’s just a horror,” she said.

Vaslev described Peggy Mosso as a sweet, positive person.

“She had just discovered Facebook, and she was sending everybody messages. She was so exuberant and excited about it,” Vaslev said. “Just very loving, such a good heart. I know she would have done anything for Wyatt.”