I think it is mom and dad Baudelaire.
I am pretty sure it was Count Olaf.
IT WAS COUNT OLAF IN BOOK 1 AND HIS CREW
WITH HIS TORCH
when it burns down
you will be unlucky write that in...
it cant
A house burns up (heat rises) but they say it burns down. A figure of speech.
You might rebuild or buy a new house
Well it burns, and then falls down. So people stop living in said house become orphans catch rare diseases and die.
Arson
Miss Maudie Atkinson
As in the play, his brother Oliver burns down his house.
you ring Laura brady
While that is not exactly the reason the son burns the house down, the film is called What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
The film _Rebecca_ (1940) deals with a house called Manderley which, at the end, burns to the ground. Bob Hope had nothing whatsoever to do with this film.