One person dead after the dog alerted Kendall residents to a house fire, cops say
One person died in an overnight house fire in Kendall, Miami-Dade police say. But the dog of the house helped save six other residents Wednesday morning.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s call list says the fire started around 3 a.m. at 8010 SW 94th Ct., which county property records say is a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house built in 1969 and is probably used as a rental property (no homestead exemption was claimed by the owner in 2020 or 2021).
According to Miami-Dade police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta, the residents had a barbecue Tuesday and were awakened to a house on fire by the dog barking. After six people in the main house got out, Zabaleta said, one man was taken to Kendall Regional Medical Center with second-degree burns, sustained as he was trying to free a family dog.
A senior citizen died in what Zabaleta described as “the rear efficiency residence.”
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This story was originally published April 13, 2022 at 7:59 AM.
