{"id":36978,"date":"2018-10-16T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/house-fire-claims-two-dogs-on-douglas\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T09:52:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T17:52:43","slug":"house-fire-claims-two-dogs-on-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home2\/house-fire-claims-two-dogs-on-douglas\/","title":{"rendered":"House fire claims two dogs on Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that the first person to report the fire was an off-duty firefighter. It was an off-duty police officer who first reported the fire.<\/em><\/p>\n

Two small dogs died in a house fire on Douglas Highway on Monday, Capital City Fire\/Rescue Assistant Chief Ed Quinto said on scene.<\/p>\n

An off-duty police officer noticed smoke at a little before 3 p.m. Tuesday and called it in, Quinto said. When officers arrived at the scene — a house at 4055 N. Douglas Highway — they saw smoke around the back of the house. Quinto said they went around to the back and found flames coming from a bedroom.<\/p>\n

They knocked the flames down fairly quickly. When firefighters went into the home, they found that the owners weren’t home but two small dogs were.<\/p>\n

“We tried doing CPR on them, giving them some oxygen and chest compressions,” Quinto said. “That didn’t work.”<\/p>\n

The dogs died, Quinto said, and he did not specify what breed they were. The homeowners — a husband and wife — arrived and told responders that the dogs were their only pets. Quinto said no humans were harmed.<\/p>\n

Fire Marshal Dan Jager released a statement Wednesday morning, saying the fire was unintentional and the most likely cause is that a battery pack was charging and caught fire. Damage to the house is estimated at $25,000, according to Jager’s statement, and the house was insured. <\/p>\n

Traffic was stopped for more than half an hour on Douglas Highway, and a line that included two school buses stretched nearly back to the roundabout near the Douglas Bridge.<\/p>\n

It was the second fire in 24 hours, as there was a minor fire on Riverside Drive on Monday night, according to CCFR’s Facebook page<\/a>. The residents of the home had knocked it down by the time firefighters arrived, according to a later CCFR post. According to CCFR’s daily incident report<\/a>, the cause of that fire was shorted electrical equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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