A good sense of smell from man’s best friend helped get firefighters quickly to a house fire in St. Lucie County.
Just after 2:30 Wednesday afternoon crews responded to a home on Palmetto Road in Indian RiverEstatess after a garage caught fire from a faulty pool pump.
Tim Swanson was working in his home nearby and says his dog Freckles started barking. "And acted like it wanted to go out and I said, 'okay I’ll take a break,' and sure enough I come around back and see smoke emanating from the back directly behind us.”
It took firefighters just a few minutes to put out the fire.
The woman who lives at the home was not hurt but the fire did do some damage to a car in the garage.
