Dog Alerts Owners To Fire In Beachwood Home

BEACHWOOD, NJ - The family dog may have saved its owners from injuries when it woke them up early Monday morning shortly after a fire broke out in their Beachwood home.

The dog alerted the owners of the Harpoon Streethouse shortly before 2 a.m., even before the smoke detectors were activated, according to the Beachwood Volunteer Fire Department's Facebook page.

When members of the Beachwood and Pine Beach fire departments arrived, one room and its contents were already on fire in a room on the second floor of the house. The fire was extinguished within 20 minutes and no one was injured, the page states.

The fire is under investigation by the Ocean County Fire Marshal's Office.

Logo: Courtesy of the Beachwood Volunteer Fire Department