Barking dogs help owners escape Takeley house fire

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House occurrence  astatine  Takeley, EssexImage source, Essex Fire & Rescue

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The location has been near uninhabitable aft the blaze, which began astatine 02:45 BST

Barking dogs alerted their owners to a occurrence that destroyed a location successful the mediate of the night.

Crews from 5 stations were called to the detached location successful Dunmow Road, Takeley, Essex, astatine astir 02:45 BST.

Station manager Terry Maher said the occurrence started successful an outbuilding earlier spreading to the extortion of the house.

He said the firefighters "worked incredibly hard" with a constricted h2o proviso and besides managed to prevention horses successful a adjacent stable.

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Station manager Terry Maher said the owners were alerted to the occurrence by their dogs barking successful the aboriginal hours

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Firefighters from Stansted, Newport, Harlow, Stansted Airport and Bishop's Stortford helped tackle the blaze

The location has been near uninhabitable and an probe volition beryllium carried retired to observe the origin of the blaze.

Dunmow Road remains closed and a diversion is successful place.

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Crews besides managed to prevention horses astatine a adjacent stable

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