Dog saves baby from house fire in Detroit, family struggles to recover
When their one-year-old baby was stuck in a house fire, their family dog would not leave her side until she was rescued.
On Tuesday, Feb. 21, a fire broke out in a multi-family home at 3456 Beniteau St. in Detroit. Janet Kelley, her fiancé DaQuan Davis, her four children, and dog are staying at a Red Roof Inn after losing everything.
A lighter started it all
The mother of four said the fire started in the unit below them, where another family lives. One of the children in that unit was playing with a lighter in the bedroom and lit up a mattress.
The downstairs tenants came running up to alert everyone, but black smoke had already filled both units. The fire quickly spread upstairs and "over to the house next door," Kelley said. "Two houses were affected by this."
Kelley's one-year-old daughter was still stuck in a playpen inside the house when firefighters showed up, she said. The family dog, Blue, refused to leave the house and "alerted rescue to where she was located."
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2023/02/28/dog-saves-baby-from-house-fire-in-detroit-family-struggles-to-recover/69949425007/
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Which incites my fears about multi-family housing, though I've spent my time in apartments, condos, dormitories and obviously hotels where this could happen as well. But that poor family. WIped out.
Still, that DOG! 
