MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Half a dozen state and county agencies are investigating a burned Georgia funeral home after a photographer from England said he found urns, bags of human ashes and even human remains in what remains of the building.

The Norman Medford Peden Funeral Home and Crematory in Marietta, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Atlanta, caught fire earlier this year. The building was in foreclosure auction before the fire occurred. The cause of the fire is unknown and the building is to be demolished.

Six agencies are now involved in trying to find out what happened inside the funeral home, including Marietta Police, Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Cobb County District Attorney’s Office, Cobb County Medical Examiner’s Office and the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office , WSB-TV reported Thursday.

They say they are looking for family members who used the business to handle their loved one’s funeral or cremation.

“We’re trying to figure out where that money is,” Noula Zaharia with the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office Cemeteries Division said of the thousands of dollars many families paid in advance for funerals.

On Wednesday, the station reported what photographer Ben James, who traveled from England to photograph the abandoned funeral home, said he found in the building.

“Account statements for funerals, account statements for people who had paid for funerals. I’ve found lots of ashes in funeral homes, maybe one or two, but to find this amount was crazy, I’ve never seen such a large amount,” said James. “It was very alarming.”

James said he found more than 30 urns and bags of human ashes. Some were labeled with names, others not. He said he also found family photos, death certificates, credit card information and dangerous chemicals.

“There was a discarded human fetus in a jar that had just been left in the embalming room,” James said. “What’s the background to it? How could it just have been forgotten? It’s very sad.”

A similar situation unfolded in another city in Georgia last month. A funeral home owner in Douglas, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Atlanta, was arrested and charged with neglecting human remains after authorities said they found 18 bodies in various stages of degradation while serving an eviction notice on the business.