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Dog alerts family to fire, is rewarded with T-bone steak: Her little hero

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Mike Sever
September 2, 2010

By Mike Sever | staff writer
Karen Prince of Charlestown is calling her dog, Molly, her little hero.
“She woke us up” Wednesday evening. Prince couldn’t figure out why the small fox terrier mix was barking and carrying on at the front door. Prince said Molly has always been nervous, so she just put it down to that.
But when Prince let the dog outside, she said Molly went straight to the corner of a shed next to her home where an exterior electrical cable was stapled along the wall.
Prince said she smelled burning plastic and saw sparks coming from the cable at the bottom corner of the shed. Prince immediately turned off the breaker, figuring that ended the problem.
A while later Molly was still barking and carrying on and, when let out, went straight to the shed a second time, Prince said.
“Her hair was standing straight out like this,” Prince said, pointing with her fingers.
Prince said she saw sparks again and this time she called the Charlestown Fire Department. The fire department responded to 6596 Bobby Drive and found the shed was connected directly to the electrical main line, bypassing the breaker box. Whoever had run the cable had hit the wire with a staple, causing the short and the sparks.
The department had to pull the meter to the home to cut the power.
“They told me that dog probably saved our lives,” Prince said. As a reward, Prince went out Wednesday and bought Molly a T-bone steak.
Prince said the shed was wired when she bought the mobile home a few years before.
Prince said Molly must have noticed the problem the night before.
“She was going absolutely crazy” and even knocked over a lamp, Prince said.
Prince said Molly “was the little dog nobody wanted” because she was so nervous. Her previous owners were going to dump her somewhere and Prince said she ended up taking Molly and her brother home.
“Now I won’t part with that dog,” Prince said, giving Molly a hug.




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