A dog saved the life of a Greenville man when he woke him up just in time for him to call emergency rescue, after a fire broke out. Roland Cote, whose wife and 7-year-old grandson were away when the blaze started early Sunday in a converted two-story garage, told police investigators that Thumper, his black Labrador retriever grabbed him by the arm to wake him, leaving just enough time for him to dial 911 before fleeing the fast-moving fire.

A heroic cat helped its owner escape a fire that erupted in his Clearwater Fla. mobile home, but could not make itself out of the flames. According to investigators, the cat woke its owner at the Capri Mobile Home Park, and alerted him to the flames engulfing the home around 3 a. m. Monday.

Firefighters trying to put out a massive fire at an apartment in southeastern Idaho were amazed to see a live albino rat huddled in a charred cage. After being rescued from fire, Halo the rat received oxygen with a special cone-shaped animal resuscitation mask. Firefighter Kirby Jonas, who rescued Halo, said he was pretty sure that anything in the cage could not have survived the flames by any chance.

The hotel guests at the Edgewater Hotel and Waterpark in Minnesota had to run in their swimming trunks on Thursday after a fake volcano at the center of a swimming pool "erupted" giving out smoke. The 20-foot-tall plastic volcano started emitting black smoke and flames at about 6:40 p. m. because of a malfunctioning of the internal speaker. The flames were put out by firefighters and an automatic sprinkler head mounted above the volcano. However, the entire volcano melted during the "eruption. "

After his failed attempts to put off the fire in his bedroom by water and a window cleaner, a 19-year-old man from Phoenix, Arizona drove all the way to a neighborhood Wal-Mart to buy a fire extinguisher. Jonathan Zaletel was using a toaster to cook methamphetamine in his bedroom closet when the appliance caught fire. To escape the police's attention for fear of being caught, he decided to put out the fire on his own.