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Article: FIREFIGHTERS SAVE PETS FROM BURNING HOME 1 DOG, 3 CATS SUFFERED SMOKE INHALATION
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- February 27, 2002
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The middle of Day Avenue became a veterinary emergency room
Tuesday as firefighters worked to resuscitate four pets they had
rescued from a burning apartment.
No humans were injured in the fire, but one dog and three cats
suffered smoke inhalation. The animals eventually perked up for
firefighters, who held oxygen masks over their noses.
Roanoke Fire-EMS Battalion Chief Bobbie Slayton said the apartment
building at 618 Day Ave. S.W. was evacuated about 7:15 p.m. Tuesday
when firefighters responded to a 911 call and found a downstairs
apartment on fire.
Lisa Taylor, who lives upstairs from that apartment, noticed smoke
in her residence and at first thought her air conditioner, which was ...