VIDEO: A family who lost nearly everything in a devastating house fire last weekend told KIRO 7 they escaped with their lives thanks to their two dogs.
13-year-old Maurice Jones said he was visiting his grandmother’s home and had just awakened when the dogs, PJ and Precious, frantically showed up at a downstairs door.
“The dogs came scratching on the door and then my cousin Jordan, he went to the door to open it, and he was like, ‘you guys come look at this,’” said Jones.
The Beacon Hill house was on fire, filling with smoke, and the family had no idea.
“I heard a pop and it was pretty loud,” said Maurice’s aunt Deirdre Jones, who was in her bed upstairs. “My door was closed then I heard the dogs PJ and Precious; they like hit my door as they ran out of Paulette’s room, my sister’s.”