BY BRIAN WHITWHAM
RECORD STAFF
KITCHENER
A family’s dog is dead after it fell unconscious in a burning bedroom in Kitchener this morning.
Kitchener platoon chief Ron Taves said a neighbour called to report the fire at a semi-detached home at 426 Bankside Cres. shortly before 9:15 a.m.
Firefighters arrived moments later to find smoke pouring out of the top floor of the home, where the heat had busted a window. Taves said the flames were quickly shut down.
“The fire was contained to the bedroom,” he said. “But had it not been noticed as soon as it was, it would have gone into the attic.”
He said a man and woman live in the home with two daughters, aged 15 and 11 years old. The girls were at school and their parents were at work when the fire was reported, Taves said.
He said the firefighters searched the home and found the dog unconscious in the bedroom. The smoke inhalation is likely what killed the animal, he said.
The woman who owns the home arrived just before the paramedics finished trying to save her dog. She declined comment.
Taves said an investigation determined that the fire was caused by an electrical problem. It started in one of the girls’ rooms, where a lamp cord ignited some bedding.
“It was accidental,” Taves said. “It looks like the electrical cord had some kind of breakdown in it which caused it to overheat.”
The fire department believes there was about $50,000 damage to the home.
Nobody home. The lamp should have been plugged into a power strip with smoke detecting automatic shutoff
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