Overview
- Volunteer crews responded around 6:30 p.m. Saturday to a kitchen fire in a Newport Station home.
- Roughly 40 firefighters from multiple West Hants departments extinguished the blaze and removed the dogs.
- Firefighters lacked enough pet oxygen masks and improvised care until Avon Animal Hospital technicians arrived.
- The dogs, including a litter of puppies, were triaged locally and taken to Metro Animal Emergency and Maritime Veterinary Emergency in Dartmouth.
- Two people who entered the home were treated for smoke inhalation, and the accidental fire's specific cause remains under investigation, with damage largely confined to the kitchen and smoke affecting the house.