Jennifer Brunson is seen outside her fire-damaged home on Thursday. She wants to know what happened to her father’s ashes after the Jan. 4 blaze.

Jennifer Brunson is seen outside her fire-damaged home on Thursday. She wants to know what happened to her father’s ashes after the Jan. 4 blaze.

Jennifer Brunson is seen outside her fire-damaged home on Thursday. She wants to know what happened to her father’s ashes after the Jan. 4 blaze.

Jennifer Brunson’s fire-damaged home on Thursday. She wants to know what happened to her father’s ashes after the Jan. 4 blaze.

Jennifer Brunson is seen outside her fire-damaged home on Thursday. She wants to know what happened to her father’s ashes after the Jan. 4 blaze.

Jennifer Brunson was sleeping at a friend’s house when she received an alarming phone call from her sister. There’d been a fire at the family home in Lansingburgh and police were testing her father’s ashes.

Testing his ashes?

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Those remains were stored on a shelf in a second-floor bedroom — the room where the fast-moving and extremely hot fire was concentrated. Troy officials say they decided to test the ashes for drugs or hazardous chemicals after hearing from onlookers that methamphetamine was possibly being cooked in the Fifth Avenue house and that a resident had a history of drug crimes.

Troy Fire Chief Richard Cellucci told me firefighters noticed a powder-like substance spilling out of an unusual, badly burned box that looked like........

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