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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Sam Elliott-Gibbs

Barking dogs save owners' lives after fire rips through their home as they sleep

Barking dogs could have saved their owners' lives after alerting them to a fire that destroyed a house in the middle of the night.

Crews from five stations were dispatched to the property in Takeley, Essex, at 2.45am this morning.

The home has been left completely uninhabitable after the huge blaze spread from an outbuilding to the house's roof.

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