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A pet rat, a piece of twine and some questionable judgment ended with a Brevard County home in flames. David Stanifer and two friends were inside the home on Friars Court in Brevard County when the fire started early Monday morning.
Stanifer and two other people were chasing the rat, named [...]
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Tampa fire investigators say an elderly couple’s dog may have helped save them from an early-morning blaze. Authorities said 82-year-old Alice Ferrari and her 83-year-old friend Ted Kolanko were asleep around 4 a.m. Saturday when their small dog started acting up.
Ferrari thought the dog needed to go outside, but when she opened the door, he [...]
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Chattanooga firefighters rescued several cats during a house fire that investigators say was probably caused by the cats themselves.
Fire department spokesman Bruce Garner said firefighters responded to an alarm Thursday morning and found a fire in the kitchen. While no one was home, they found about 10 cats inside.
Some of the cats escaped the house [...]
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Rabbit’s owner Gerry Finn had been home from night shift only 30 minutes when he heard the black rabbit furiously scratching at the bedroom door about 6am today.
He was shocked to discover it had alerted him to a blaze rapidly spreading through the back of his Macleod home, in Melbourne’s north.
Smoke blackened the inside [...]
We’ve already had our first named hurricane of the season — Bertha — and the Atlantic hurricane season runs through Nov. 30.
Then of course there are floods, fires, tornadoes and other natural and man-made disasters. Are you ready to evacuate with your pet? Georgia officials hope so. And if not, they’ve launched a program to [...]
