Dog accidentally sets fire to house in Frisco at Christmas

FRISCO, Texas – A Frisco resident says her neighbor saved her home on Christmas morning after a pet accidentally set the kitchen on fire.

Video inside the house shows the fire in Megan Black’s stove. One of her two dogs came through the gate and tried to get a cookie on the kitchen table by turning on the stove. She called a neighbor who was putting out a fire.

All this happened in less than seven minutes.

Before the Frisco Fire Department could arrive on the scene, a neighbor intervened and put out the fire herself. All this was filmed on video.

The accidental arsonist of this near-catastrophic kitchen fire on Christmas morning is called Twitch.

Black was in Selina opening presents with her family when she received an alert that the fire alarm went off at her home in Frisco.

“I sit and watch her in action on camera,” she recalls. “I can not do anything. I just watch her save my house.”

While Black’s sister was calling 911, Black called her neighbor Cissy Blazure, who dropped her Christmas morning coffee and ran into the neighborhood.

“Maybe it was the motherly instinct of a woman. I dont know. I was just trying,” Blazur said.

If we rewind Black’s home camera by just 15 minutes, the cause of the fire will be clear.

One of the dog gates that closed the kitchen was left open. So, a 3-year-old silver Labrador jumped on the stove and fed herself cookies while accidentally holding the pen.

“She just clicked so perfectly and turned on the stove,” Black said.

A 10-year-old boxer named Usher watched from afar as the flames began to spread.

When Blazour arrived, she quickly tried to get the dogs outside and then put out the fire.

“I look around and see that she has a gas burner in the center. I immediately turned it off,” she recalls.

Luckily Blazure didn’t get burned. But through the thick smoke, she grabbed a bowl and went to the sink.

“I just started filling the bowl while she was on the phone with me and poured as much water as I could,” she said. “And then I just started throwing it.”

Black and her family will rent an apartment for at least the next 4-6 months. Most of her house is damaged by smoke. The bottom floor must be completely gutted. But, fortunately, no one was hurt.