(File Photo of Fire Background)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Upper St. Clair, PA) Yesterday morning, a dog of a family helped them escape a fire that happened that day in Upper St. Clair at a home on the 1400 block of Meadow Road just after 4:30 a.m. The fire was under control after around forty-five minutes of work by fire crews from Upper St. Clair. They even had to get a fire hydrant down the road because one hydrant could not be operated and a collapse was seen at one part of the house that caught on fire. According to Upper St. Clair Fire Chief Ted Hale, the dog of two adults and a one-year-old child woke them up and got them safely displaced before the fire happened. This fire is being investigated by the Allegheny County fire marshal. The cause of this Upper St. Clair house fire that is believed to have started on the back porch of that home is unknown at this time.