Small dog warns of blaze

A small dog is being hailed as a hero after alerting its Christchurch owner to a fire tearing through her Mount Pleasant home. Another great dog hero story... the more the better as dogs really do get a bad wrap!

Heather McLean was forced to jump from her home's 5m-high balcony at 8pm on Thursday to escape the fire after two-year-old jack russell-cross Ginger barked and growled at the laundry door, where the fire started, to raise the alarm.

The house was destroyed in the blaze.

McLean's partner, Mark Ramsay, said yesterday that she had been watching television in the lounge when the fire broke out.

"(Heather) was telling (Ginger) to be quiet, but the dog kept barking, so she opened the door and there were flames going flat out," he said.
and we know how fast fire can spread !!

"If we had a big dopey dog that slept in the corner all the time it wouldn't have worked."
Ramsay had been gone less than an hour on a bike ride when he returned to find his home ablaze. Oh, I don't know about that. I think any kind of dog would have said something. Hell, they want to preserve their life to! It's just a way for them to say how much they love their dog...
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"I wondered what everyone was looking at, then I looked up and saw it was my house.