Firefighters were able to put out the flames in just minutes but it was already too late. All of the animals died and the home was destroyed.
CONCORD, N.C. -- A home was destroyed and four pets were killed overnight in a fire on Patricia Drive in Concord. The 84-year-old woman who lived in the home was barely able to get out before the flames consumed her house, and now she's trying to salvage some of those memories.
Joan Hendren was sleeping early Friday morning when she was awakened by a fire in her Concord home.
"The whole place started burning; it just happened like the snap of your hand and I got out," she explained.
But before she did, Hendren tried to save her four pets: a dog, a bird and two cats.
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"The dog was in the living room and the bird was in the kitchen on the island and she was going in there to try to get them but it was too hot she had come out of there," said Hendron’s neighbor, Sandra Smith.
Firefighters were able to put out the flames in just minutes but it was already too late. All of the animals died and the home was destroyed.
"It will all come out in the wash, as the old saying goes,” Hendren said. “The only thing I miss is my babies."
The flames were burning so hot, a neighbor's vinyl siding was also burned during the fire. A Concord firefighter was taken to the hospital with minor injuries but is expected to be OK.