A Saskatchewan couple says clucks, not fire trucks, helped them escape a blaze at their home.
Dennis Murawska said a pet chicken named Cluck Cluck woke his wife Susan with loud clucking from its cage in the basement two floors below about 6:15 a.m. Thursday. The couple’s two cats also were running around the main floor.
Murawska said he had been half awake but didn’t know about the fire because the smoke alarms hadn’t gone off. He realized something was wrong when his wife got up.
“The chicken gets quite vocal when she gets excited,” he said.
Dennis Murawska said a pet chicken named Cluck Cluck woke his wife Susan with loud clucking from its cage in the basement two floors below about 6:15 a.m. Thursday. The couple’s two cats also were running around the main floor.
Murawska said he had been half awake but didn’t know about the fire because the smoke alarms hadn’t gone off. He realized something was wrong when his wife got up.
“The chicken gets quite vocal when she gets excited,” he said.
Cluck Cluck came from a nearby
farm and when the chicken began wandering over to his house, his
neighbor said he could kill it because it wasn’t producing any eggs. But
Murawska felt sorry for Cluck Cluck because she had a mutated foot and
decided to keep her. He fed the bird and built a coop, and then his wife
let Cluck Cluck into the basement on cold nights.
The couple escaped, and
firefighters found the chicken in its cage and one of the cats alive in
the basement. Another cat hasn’t been found and is presumed dead,
Murawska said. The couple and their surviving cat checked into a Black
River Falls hotel, while Cluck Cluck is staying with the neighbor who
used to own her.
Alma Center Fire Chief Jeff Gaede
said the fire started in the attic of the attached garage and was not
suspicious. The house was a total loss, but it could have been worse —
if not for the chicken.
“We are used to hearing about a
dog or cat or something, but we never heard of a chicken waking up a
resident for a fire,” Gaede said. “That’s pretty amazing.”
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