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Dog Alerts Family To Fire

Steven Peters has a hug for his son Anthony, 4, after a fire swept through their unit at the Broadway Square Apartments in Spokane Valley on Monday. Their dog, Bonita, alerted the boy and his mother, Tara Peters, to the blaze. (Dan Pelle / Spokesman-Review)

A puppy named Bonita is credited with alerting a Spokane Valley family to a fire early Monday that heavily damaged their apartment complex. Bonita started barking around 9 a.m. when a row of garages at the Broadway Square Apartments, 11910 E. Broadway Ave., caught fire. The racket alerted the dog’s owner, Tara Peters, who was at home with her 4-year-old son, Anthony. Peters said the fire jumped from the garages and tore through the attic of her family’s second-floor apartment. She, her son and Bonita escaped unharmed. “I thought we were going to lose everything,” Peters said/ Chad Sokol , SR. More here .

Question: Would you trust your dog to wake you up if an emergency occurred — or someone was trying to break into your house?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog