The damage was so severe that eight people have been displaced, but firefighters did manage to save a small dog that was hiding in the bedroom of a burning home.
Firefighters got the call just after 9:30 a.m. from neighbors on Vineyard Drive who were seeing smoke and flames coming from a house near the intersection with Orchard Circle.
“We were dispatched in reference to a structure fire,” said Captain Matthew Hall of the South Salisbury Fire Department. “On the notes it stated that the neighbors were standing in the front yard, that was really all we had.”
When firefighters arrived they set up getting the water supply, then attacked the fire. When it was safe to get inside the house, a firefighter saw the front paws of a little dog sticking out from under a bed in the house that was filled with thick smoke. He knew he had to act quickly.