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Rabbit saves owners from house fire

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By Edwina Scott

July 24, 2008 = 12:50pm

A QUICK-thinking bunny, named Rabbit, has saved a Melbourne = couple=20 from a devastating house fire.

Rabbit's owner Gerry Finn had been home from night shift only 30 = minutes when=20 he heard the black rabbit furiously scratching at the bedroom door about = 6am=20 (AEST) today.

He was shocked to discover it had alerted him to a blaze rapidly = spreading=20 through the back of his Macleod home, in Melbourne's north.

Smoke blackened the inside of the house, and flames destroyed part of = the=20 roof.

Neighbours pitched in with hoses to save the house before four fire = crews=20 arrived to extinguish the blaze.

Six days from completing a painstaking two-year renovation, the = couple was=20 stunned but relieved to have escaped the fire without injury.

Wife Michelle said Rabbit had alerted them in the nick of time.

"We were both asleep. It was very lucky for both of us," she said. =

Rabbit is usually happy to roam around the house, only locked in a = cage when=20 guests arrive, she said.

"He's just sort of an inside pet but I don't think he was very = impressed,"=20 Mrs Finn said.

"We've been renovating for two years - we started with a disaster, = and now=20 this.

"All that hard work gone."

A jewellery-maker, Michelle's tools and jewels were also lost in the = fire.=20

Fire investigators believe a heater may have sparked the blaze.

A smoke alarm had been removed from the back room ceiling while the = room was=20 painted.

Metropolitan Fire Brigade commander Mick Swift said the couple owed = their=20 escape to Rabbit. But, he said, home renovations should be no barrier to = fire=20 safety.

"The lesson to learn from this is that even if a smoke alarm is = removed it=20 can still be put high up on a shelf," he said.

Rabbit miraculously survived 45 minutes of heat and smoke inhalation = before=20 alerting his owners.

The six-month-old bunny will visit the vet for a check-up later = today.

 

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