Barking dog alerts family to fire

Published: June 12, 2006 | 4339th good news item since 2003

A family pet is credited with perhaps saving a West Hall family of four from death or serious injury early Monday.

Hall County Fire Marshal Scott Cagle says the dog began barking about 2:30 as smoke filled the home of Harold Morris and his family at 3411 Cook Road. Cagle says there were apparently no working smoke alarms in the 3,000 square foot house.

He says the fire started outside the house apparently from discarded charcoal embers. Cagle said Mr. Morris had been grilling on the deck about 8:00 Sunday night and said some hot charcoal had dropped through some cracks in the deck onto the ground below but that he put some water on them and thought he had “put it all the way out but apparently he did not” because that’s where the fire started.

Cagle says the flames climbed the outside wall of the house and got into the attic and quickly became a roaring fire.

Published in Animals and Life
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