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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Stephen White

Dog with 'super hearing' saved owner's life after fire broke out in flat next door

A devoted dog saved her owner’s life from a potentially deadly fire by constantly barking to alert him to a carbon monoxide alarm he couldn’t hear.

David Salisbury’s Yorkshire Terrier Tiny woke him at 5:30am in the morning with her incessant yapping by his bedside.

When widower David, 88, investigated what she was barking at, he discovered she was reacting to a carbon monoxide alarm triggered by a blaze in the flat next to his house.

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