Dog Alerts Resident To Fire, Reading Fire Officials Say

READING, MA — A fire broke out at a Reading home over the weekend. Companies were dispatched to a Grove Street home on a report of a house filling with smoke at 9 a.m. Saturday, according to Reading Firefighters Local 1640.

Crews arrived to find the single-family home full of smoke and a small fire in the basement. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze.

A dog alerted the person inside to the fire. The home had no working smoke alarms or carbon monoxide detectors.

"This incident could have ended very differently had the occupant not been alerted by the dog," fire officials said. "We’d like to take this opportunity to stress the importance of working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors!"