Two brave dogs saved their family from a house fire in Bodmin, Cornwall, last month. They even beat the smoke alarm in alerting them, reported CornwallLive.
24-year-old Molly and her twin sister were sleeping upstairs. Then, they heard Labrador Polly and Bulldog Coco “going nuts” and barking on the floor below. When Molly went downstairs to investigate, she saw that an armchair had caught fire.
She tried to put the blaze out using a fire blanket. However, the flames had started to get bigger and the blanket caught fire too. But fortunately, Molly and her sister got out of the house safely with both canines.
Armchair Caught Fire
“I was having a lie in and at around 10:19 am, I heard the dogs start barking and going nuts”, said Molly about the ordeal. “When I went downstairs and saw the armchair on fire, I grabbed the fire blanket to try and put it out but that caught fire too. I remember the exact time it was because I instinctively called my mum, who was at work at the time, and also the fire brigade.
“The dogs alerted us to the fire five minutes before the alarm went off. It started off as a small fire so that’s why the smoke alarm hadn’t gone off. I honestly don’t know if we would have made it out the house in time if it wasn’t for the dogs.”
While everyone’s safe, the family’s living room and kitchen were both destroyed completely in the house fire. Meanwhile, the rest of the house suffered from smoke damage and was rendered uninhabitable.
Raising Money for Essentials
For the time being, the family have moved in with Molly’s grandmother on the same street. They’re waiting to move into the alternative accommodation arranged through their insurance. Molly has also set up a GoFundMe as the family look to replace almost all of their belongings.
The full-time student also thanked their local branches of Pets at Home and Vets4Pets for checking over Polly and Coco and replacing a toy.
