Dog rescued after furniture store fire in Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A canine trapped wrong a burning furnishings store successful southbound Fresno was rescued aft firefighters responded to the country Tuesday morning.

According to the Fresno Fire Department, the canine was trapped wrong the "Furniture & More" store astatine the intersection of Maple Avenue and Cesar Chavez Boulevard. Crews responding to the occurrence recovered fume coming from the backmost of the gathering - and that occurrence past dispersed to the attic abstraction of the building.

"Crews were capable to salvage astir of the merchandise wrong the business, truthful hopefully they volition beryllium capable to enactment open," said Fresno Fire's Josh Sellars. It is chartless if each the businesses housed wrong the gathering volition beryllium capable to enactment open.

Fresno Fire was besides capable to rescue a ample German Shepherd canine from the occurrence earlier reuniting the canine with its owner.

It is chartless however the occurrence started, but Fresno Fire confirms that it started connected the extracurricular and dispersed to the gathering itself.