VIDEO: A family’s dog died Thursday after flames ripped through the garage of a Carlsbad home, sending firefighters rushing into the burning building to try to save two pets.
The Carlsbad Fire Department said the fire erupted at around 12:20 p.m. at a house in the 3900-block of James Drive. When fire crews arrived, raging flames were stemming from the garage, and spreading into the home. “Big black smoke, real close, I hollered ‘fire,’ and we came running out of the garage and a gentlemen who lives there was running in the front yard in a panic saying, ‘My dogs, my dogs, my dogs,’” said Jeff Gosnell, a construction worker who was remodeling the home next door at the time of the fire.
Carlsbad officials said the residents had managed to flee the fire unharmed but two dogs were still inside the burning home.