Family Praises Dog For Saving Them From Fire <br />Rescued dog saves family from fire <br />A family’s dog saved them from a fire that broke out in their home and burned everything. <br /> <br />The dog began frantically barking when the fire broke out in the home Saturday morning WNEP reported. <br /> <br />The fire started around 4:30 a.m. <br /> <br />Chris Julian, Kelly Yarbrough, and two of their four children were all asleep in the home when they heard the dog barking. <br /> <br />When they woke up they found their home on fire. <br /> <br />“The fire was coming through the door and the dog saved our lives and if it wasn’t for him, we’d all be dead right now,” Yarbrough told WNEP. <br /> <br />The family made it out safely but lost everything in the fire. <br /> <br />The two children were sleeping on the floor of the parents’ room when the fire broke out. The family had been watching a movie before going to bed. The two other children weren’t home at the time of the fire. <br /> <br />“We made a bed on the floor and laid them on the floor and had I not, I probably wouldn’t have been able to get them out of their bedroom,” Yarbrough said. <br /> <br />The family said it is ironic that they had rescued Lou from his previous owners who abused him, and now Lou rescued the family from a fire that destroyed their entire home. <br /> <br />The Red Cross is helping the family and the Carbondale community is collecting donations. <br /> <br />Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the fire.
