Dog’s Action Sparks Home Blaze
It wasn’t as bad as the time Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over the lantern and started the Great Chicago Fire, but a large Valley puppy nonetheless created a stir Friday when its antics ignited a small home fire. No one, including the dog, was injured.
The puppy’s owners had installed a movable “doggy door” in their sliding door so the dog could go in and out of the house, said Brian Humphrey, spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department.
But shortly after 5 p.m., the puppy knocked the dog door over and onto a floor furnace, which ignited the plastic unit, Humphrey said. The fire, which caused about $7,000 in damage, then spread to a nearby closet.
It took 15 firefighters about 20 minutes to put out the fire in the 4400 block of Laurelgrove Avenue, Humphrey said.
The cause of the blaze was listed as “a harlequin Great Dane puppy,” Humphrey said.
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