Dog wakes people to natural gas leak at 4 a.m.

Occupants of two rental units in a single-family home at American Way on Peak 7 may have been spared a tragedy thanks to a dog waking one of the families at 4 a.m.

The owners of the dog awoke to the smell of natural gas, grabbed their 6-month-old child and evacuated the house. They tried unsuccessfully to wake their neighbors.

When firefighters arrived, they awakened the other residents and found that a burner on a gas stove had been left on – leaking raw gas into the home.

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The house was ventilated and the occupants returned inside.

“The occupants are very lucky that the dog woke them up,” RWB deputy chief Jay Nelson said in a press release. “With the amount of gas inside the house, it could definitely have had a very different outcome if a spark ignited that gas.”