Pair rescued from clothes-ignited house blaze, but puppies die, in Canterbury, UK - Monks Close - 0 injured, 2 dead puppies

A mother and her 15-year-old daughter have been rescued from a fire at their home in Kent, on friday the 27th of March 2009, which claimed the lives of their two puppies. The fire broke out on the ground floor of the house in Monks Close, Canterbury, shortly after 02.00 GMT. The two people were rescued by fire crews from a first floor bedroom. The fire was caused by a light which radiated heat on to a pile of clothing in the kitchen. Firefighter said the family had been "traumatised" by the loss of two new family pets. "They died through the smoke that they breathed in during the fire." Firefighters tried to revive the puppies, who were eight weeks old and trapped in the kitchen, but they died at the scene.