Dog alerts local family to fire, dies in blaze

PIQUA — Glenda Moss saved Jeter after an early life of abuse.

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Jeter paid her back Thursday, June 11. The five-year-old great pyrenees is credited with saving the lives of Moss and her son David, 19, by alerting them to an early morning fire at their Harney Street home on Piqua’s west side. Smelling smoke and hearing the crackle of fire, mother and son fled the house around 6 a.m. with Jeter following. For an unknown reason, the 120-pound dog went back into the house and perished. Glenda Moss was sleeping in a recliner in the living room when Jeter, who usually slept in the bay window nearby, “was right up in my face, all over me,” she said. “I tried to shove him away, then I smelled the smoke.”

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