Barbara Klein, her husband Larry and their six-year-old granddaughter Kaitlyn Rose Pellerin were fast asleep when a fire started in their kitchen. But Louie the parrot started squawking “fire”, which was enough to raise the family from their sleep. Unluckily, the parrot lost his life in the fire along with family’s four dogs.
But Barbara, from Lebanon, Tennessee, US, said, “Louie is a true hero. If it weren’t for him, I probably would have been sleeping during the fire. He started saying ‘fire’. He had never said that word before in my memory. When I woke up, the fire was starting to spread across the living room floor.”
The fire started in the early hours of February 3. After being woken up, Larry tried to fight the fire. “He ran to the kitchen and was trying to put the fire out with water,” Barbara said. “After we left, he ran back into the house to try to save our dogs and his grandfather’s guitar. He kept saying he couldn’t breathe and I was shouting at him to leave the house. I told him to get down and he crawled out. I pulled him out of the fire. Then we got in the car and drove out of the driveway.”
Larry was sent to the Medical Center for urgent treatment. It was a miracle that he survived. The community came together and gave Kaitlyn a birthday party with 100 people. Someone donated the apartment for three months, and also gave them a baby parrot as well. They called him Louie Jr.
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