A nine-year old boy is being credited with saving his family from a house fire in Moniteau County.
Moniteau County Emergency Dispatch says crews were called to a house fire in the 500 block of East Mulberry Street in California just before 10:00 last night. Crews arrived to find heavy flames showing from the room of a single-story house. It was reported that all residents had escaped, thanks to a nine-year-old boy who woke his family and alerted them to the fire. A dog was still inside the home but was later found and given oxygen on the scene. The dog is expected to make a full recovery.
It took crews from the California Fire Department, the California Rural Fire Protection District, and the Jamestown Rural Fire Protection District about 40 minutes to put out the fire. The house had a metal roof that was laid over asphalt shingles, making it hard to put out the fire. Firefighters had to cut holes in the metal roof to put water on hotspots. They remained on the scene for four-and-a-half hours…