Overview
- Fillmore, a 3-year-old German shorthaired pointer, jolted the Dalis family awake around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday in North Tustin, leading them to a garage fire.
- The family sprayed the flames with garden hoses until Orange County firefighters arrived and kept the blaze in the garage.
- OCFA heavy equipment crews pulled the family’s cars from the garage to reach and cool lingering hot spots.
- The garage and vehicles were destroyed but no one was hurt and the house stayed intact.
- Investigators are probing a possible electrical cause, and OCFA praised the dog on social media with the line, “Give this dog an award.”