Dogs alert owners to huge house fire by barking in early hours

Photo taken with permission from the Twitter account of @ECFRS of a house fire in Dunmow Road, Takeley, Essex (Essex Fire Service/PA)

Dogs alerted their owners to a huge fire at a house in Essex by barking in the early hours of the morning.

Fire crews extinguished the blaze which ripped through the detached house in Dunmow Road, Takeley, after being called at 2.43am on Sunday.