Taryn Page lives behind 35 Tennyson Street, near Hamilton Road.  Page responded as soon as the flames started.  He says he fought to the front door of the house and knocked furiously.
“I think she is [the female property owner] he had woken up.  “I used to shout in her yard,” Page explained.
After seeing the woman go out safely with her granddaughter, Page says the family dog ​​who had escaped somehow returned home.
For a few brief moments he stepped in to try to get Parker back.
“I was crawling into the living room and the smoke was very thick,” Page said.
Taryn Page stands in his backyard with a neighbor’s damaged house over his shoulder, June 29, 2022. (Sean Irvine / CTV News London) Retiring, Duncan MacKinnon arrives at his mother’s house just behind the fire.
“The back of the house was on fire, as I approached the fence line I felt the heat.  It was a scary scene, “said MacKinnon.
Realizing that he could not overcome the flames, he took a video of the fire and recorded the scene as the fire brigade arrived.
As firefighters tried to contain the blaze, others worked ahead to help the family dog.  “Parker” received oxygen from the firefighters and is believed to be recovering.
Duncan McKinnon rushed to the scene of a fire at a house just behind his mother’s property.  Realizing he could not overcome the flames to help, he videotaped moments before firefighters arrived.  June 29, 2022. (Sean Irvine / CTV News London) Neighbor Bill Landry, who lives across the street, saw the rescue and told CTV News: “The firefighter pulled him out and put him on the ground over there.”
Moments earlier, Landry was one of the first to see the flames rising as he sat on his porch.
“Fire! Many of them. Very heavy. They [the flames] “They were shooting in the air,” he said.
Landry’s description shows why those who helped rescue are happy that everyone survived, even though the damage is significant.
Fire officials estimate the losses at $ 600,000.
Bill Landry lives right across from the scene of a house fire on Tennyson Street.  June 29, 2022. (Sean Irvine / CTV News London) Looking at the rubble of the house, McKinnon, who did not know that everyone had escaped safely until he met CTV London, expressed relief.
“It’s great! This is really good news,” he said.
London police have identified the fire as suspicious and Ontario Fire Department and London Fire Department investigators remain at the scene Wednesday.