The father of three children who died in a Christmas Eve fire along with their grandparents has spoken out for the first time since the tragedy.

Matthew Badger is the ex-husband of Madonna Badger, the woman who lost her whole family when her Stamford, Connecticut home went up in flames after after yule log embers were placed unsafely in a bag in the back mud room, taking the lives of her seven-year-old twins Grace and Sarah Badger, Lily Badger, 10, and her parents Lomer and Pauline Johnson.

Madonna Badger has been questioned extensively by police for the first time since losing her three daughters and her parents in a tragic Christmas fire.

The advertising executive was interviewed on Thursday night, Stamford police sergeant Paul Guzda confirmed although he would not reveal the nature of the conversations.

The inferno in Badger’s Connecticut home took the lives of her seven-year-old twins Grace and Sarah Badger, Lily Badger, 10, and her parents Lomer and Pauline Johnson.

As RadarOnline previous reported, Badger had to be physically restrained as she desperately tried to re-enter the house in the early hours of the fateful day in an effort to save her girls.

Her boyfriend Michael Borcina, who also survived the fire, had told officials that he put Yule log embers in a bag of discarded ash in an entryway which is thought to have been where the inferno started.

Assistant Fire Chief Peter Brown previously told RadarOnline that it is an ongoing investigation but that “the preliminary cause was accidental and that is the way it will be expected to stay.”

Borcina's constructin company was handling renovation work on Badger's recently purchased $1.7 million waterfront home.

Sgt. Guzda says police plan on interviewing Borcina soon too as officials want to find out if the large home had working smoke detectors.

The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection has said that Borcina nor his company had the right paperwork to conduct construction work in the state but did not say if they were going to launch an investigation.

Police have been patient in speaking to Badger while she had some time to grieve and also attend the memorial services for her five family members.

During her eulogy last week she cried in front of the 700-strong congregation, “Why my children? Why my parents?”

She was comforted by Borcina and the children’s father Matthew Badger at the service.

America was touched by the heartbreaking images of Madonna Badger sobbing as she said her final goodbyes to her family at the funerals of her three children and parents last week, and now RadarOnline.com has exclusive details of the devoted mom's fight to save them from the deadly fire that destroyed her Connecticut home.

"She was pretty hysterical and extremely emotional," Assistant Fire Chief Peter Brown of the Stamford Fire Department told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview. "She was trying to get back into the house, they had to physically stop her from going into the house and back up the ladder."

As RadarOnline previously reported, investigators believe the blaze started from yule log embers that Badger and her boyfriend Michael Borcina placed in the back foyer in a bag.

The memorial for Madonna Badger's three children and their grandparents is giving a small degree of closure to the mourning mother, RadarOnline.com has learned.

"It is a heartbreaking thing," a family member exclusively told RadarOnline.com, the day after the multiple funeral service.

"I hope that she has found some peace. Maybe this can help bring some closure.”

Hard-wired smoke alarms had not been hooked up inside the Stamford, Connecticut Victorian home where the three young daughters and parents of New York advertising exec Madonna Badger died in a horrific fire on Christmas morning.

Authorities said Tuesday while there were plans for the alarms, they were not yet working; officials did not know whether battery-operated alarms were being used.

We’re also learning new details about the family’s frantic attempts to escape the burning $1.7 million, five-bedroom, waterfront home – purchased by Badger last year.

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New York fashion executive Madonna Badger's three children and parents were killed in a Christmas day fire that tore through her Stamford, Conn. home and RadarOnline.com has the numerous 911 calls that were placed to authorities.

"There's a huge fire at the house next door to us. The whole house is on fire," the first caller says in the 911 tape first obtained by the New York Post on Tuesday afternoon.

"There's three kids and a woman…"

A blaze that ripped through a family’s home on Christmas Day killing fashion executive Madonna Badger’s three young children and her parents appears to have been the result of Yule log embers.

The prominent New York businesswoman, who created the iconic Calvin Klein underwear ad with Mark Wahlberg, had been wrapping gifts by the fireplace with Michael Borcina until around 3 am. They apparently then loaded the embers from the fireplace into a bucket and left it in the foyer before going to bed, an emergency worker told The New York Daily News.

Investigators believe that is where the blaze started in the $1.7 million Victorian home that Madonna only moved into last year. Borcina was the contractor for the renovations being undertaken on the Stamford waterfront estate.

Lily Badger, 10, and her seven-year-old twin sisters Sarah and Grace were killed and their grandparents Lomer, 71, and Pauline also perished in the tragic incident.

Lomer had valiantly tried to rescue his grandchildren by climbing onto a flat section of roof atop the three-story home and was close to getting one of the trapped children out but collapsed from carbon monoxide poisoning.

He was found buried underneath rubble just outside an open window which was near to where his granddaughter’s body was located. The proud grandfather had dressed up as Santa Claus at Saks  Fifth Avenue this year to hand out gifts to children at the urging of his granddaughter Lily.

Neighbor and eye witness Charles Mangano told The Stamford Advocate he heard a man screaming for help as flames consumed the house shortly before dawn.

"They were both obviously in a state of shock," Mangano said. "He was in his boxers and a T-shirt, with no shoes. They were leading him up to an EMS truck. The woman said -- she was mumbling -- and she said, `my whole life is in there'."

The distraught Badger was seen fighting to get back inside the home to try and save her girls but she was eventually subdued and loaded onto a stretcher.

Badger has been released from hospital while Borcina remains in stable condition.