Four people are safe after their house caught fire early Wednesday morning and credit their smoke detectors for saving their lives.
“I was actually about to go to bed and I was smelling something but I thought it was my heater so I didn’t pay much attention to it that’s when we heard the fire alarm go off,” Escobar said.
The smoke detector went off and her roommate checked the house. That’s when they realized there was a house fire.
“Three of us actually went out through the side door where the fire started and my roommate went back in to pick up his dog,” she said. “So he had to take his dog out the window.”
“When I go over to see her I always walk around to see if everything’s okay in the house,” Renitza’s dad Rene Escobar said.
Renitza’s dad says a few months ago he went through the house and changed the detector batteries after the alarm system’s batteries needed to be changed “I believe it was July my dad came over and he helped me fix the alarm and reset the batteries,” she said.
“I’m really thankful because if we didn’t hear it we probably wouldn’t have went up and checked it,” Renitza said.
“Cause otherwise we would have had a causality or two,” her dad added.
Mobile fire investigators say the cause of the fire is ruled accidental caused by a discarded cigarette in a plastic cigarette container.