An Indian-origin Uber driver has stopped mid-journey to rush into a burning Cloverdale home where a frantic woman was desperately searching for her dog.
Panic broke out as the top floor of the Middleton Street townhouse went up in flames just after 9am. In dramatic footage, one distressed voice can be heard shouting,
“The dog is in there.”
Inderjit Singh was carrying a passenger when he noticed thick smoke rising from the property.
“I just told my customer, ‘can I go inside and check what is happening there?’ She told it’s OK,” Singh told 9News.
“When I just went there, I saw a big flame inside there.”
His passenger phoned triple zero while Singh ran into the darkened home, where a woman was crying out for her missing pet.
“I don’t know if the dog is inside. I think someone is inside too.”
Fire crews working nearby were on the scene within minutes — “even before a triple zero call had been made,” according to WA Fire managing director Gareth Deeg.
A 54-year-old resident was treated by paramedics for smoke inhalation. The dog, Prada, was found hiding in a downstairs room.
The owner, too distraught to speak on camera to 9News, said her home of seven years was uninsured and she had no idea where she would sleep tonight.
The cause of the blaze remains under investigation.
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