Her house was on fire. Her poodle's frantic barking helped save her life.
Aida Kelly was losing patience. It was around 12:45 a.m. and her standard poodle, Squilliam, would not stop barking. He paced between the kitchen and her bedroom for 10 minutes, getting louder each time he reentered her room. Kelly said she was half asleep with her CPAP machine running and initially tried to shoo him away. He kept at it, and eventually she realized something must be wrong.
“I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, what’s going on?’” said Kelly, who lives in West Milford, New Jersey. “He never does that.”
She jumped out of bed and realized the back wall of her home was engulfed in flames. She said she could hear glass windows shattering as the blaze spread. Kelly ran back for her phone that morning and called 911. She grabbed Squilliam and a few belongings and ran for the front door.
The smoke alarm started sounding as they left. Had she waited for it to go off, Kelly said, she believes they would not have made it out alive. “My fire alarm was my dog going back and forth barking,” Kelly said.
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The cause of the blaze is still under investigation, Moscatello said, adding that it started at the back exterior of the home, which could explain why the smoke detector took so long to go off. The story was first reported by CBS New York.
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