PORT ANGELES — A smoke detector may have saved a family of four and their pets when their one-story home caught on fire in Four Seasons Park early Saturday morning.
“The smoke detector worked,” Clallam County Fire District No. 2 Deputy Chief Mike Oakes said.
“That was a great deal. They didn’t have a whole lot of time to get out.”
Oakes said the house was filled with smoke, and had the occupants not been awakened by the alarm, they might not have escaped.
Firefighters were summoned to the house at 12 Maple Lane, near Morse Creek, at 3:52 a.m. after the occupants called 9-1-1.
Oakes said the family awakened to find the 25-foot by 40-foot house filled with smoke and some flames extending into the attic.
One of the residents controlled the fire with a garden hose until firefighters arrived and knocked down the flames within a few minutes, Oakes said.