Duane Duff looked on in disbelief as firefighters screamed "No! No! Get out!" to one another seconds before a siren went off and fire knocked the front upstairs window out of his Jamestown home.
Crews from the Jamestown Fire Department were called out around 11 a.m. Tuesday to the scene in southwest Jamestown for a fire the dispatcher called "fully involved."
"What are you going to do? You know everything can be replaced," Duff said. "It's just property and nobody got hurt."
Smoke poured out of the house for blocks as fire engulfed the inside of the house Duff has called home since 1992.
Duff, who came straight to the scene from his job at the North Dakota State Hospital, lost his dogs Maggie and Lacey in the Tuesday morning blaze.
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"I lost my two dogs and that hurts, but it's just a house," he said.
More information from the Jamestown Fire Department was not immediately available.
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