LONGVIEW, Wash. -- A Longview couple says Sid, their pet German shepherd, helped save their children by alerting them to a rapidly growing fire. The flames broke out after a kerosene lamp shattered Friday morning inside the home where Wendy Mudge and her three children, Seth Jolly and twins Molly and Mason, have been living with Ed Arthur for the last year.“I heard a glass explosion behind me and when I turned around, almost the entire wall was already engulfed in flames," Mudge says.
Arthur had just stepped into the shower when Mudge burst in to warn him. He says everything happened very quickly."I don’t think I turned the shower off. I stepped out. I grabbed a towel and wrapped it around me," Arthur says. "I didn’t know if the kids were out of the house, if the animals were out of the house.Then 9-year-old Sid ran upstairs to the kids’ room and barked until all three were heading out the front door to safety.(Sid was) going from each room, barking, waking the kids, and would not come downstairs until all three of the kids were down," Mudge says.J
olly says Sid was trying to save him despite being burned in the blaze."I’m a really deep sleeper and I would not have woke up if it wasn’t for him barking. He was in my room barking and he was literally on fire," he says.Once outside, Sid's owners extinguished the flames on their pet."We got them out the door and I grabbed Sid’s dog bed and threw myself and the bed on top of Sid to put the flames out and took him outside," Mudge says.
The dog suffered some burns and lung damage, but appears to be recovering.The family says the blaze gutted their home and killed two other dogs, a female shepherd and a puppy.Since Friday night, the family has been staying at a Kelso motel and will be looking for a new home.Mudge says the family liked to use kerosene lamps and candles for soft light, warmth and a little savings on the electric bill.
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