A resident in a Guide Meridian home north of Bellingham suffered minor smoke inhalation Wednesday morning when they ran back into their burning home to rescue some ferrets. Two fire engines from North Whatcom Fire and Rescue and one each from the Lynden Fire Department and Whatcom County Fire District 7 responded at 7:24 a.m. to a structure fire at 5731 Guide Meridian — a two story residential home just north of Axton Road. Crews arrived to find a front interior room involved with fire, North Whatcom Fire Chief William Pernett told The Bellingham Herald Wednesday in an email, with flames extending out a window and up into the eaves of the home. “Fire crews aggressively fought the fire from inside the home,” Pernett told The Herald.