Dog Saves Family From Burning Tigard Home Then Loses Its Life in the Fire

At 1:45 in the morning, everyone in that Tigard home was asleep. The fire was not.

By the time flames started moving through the house on Southwest Sunrise Lane, there was one thing standing between a sleeping family and a much worse outcome. It was not a smoke detector. It was a dog.

That dog is gone now.

The House on Southwest Sunrise Lane

On October 14, 2026, Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue responded to a two-alarm fire at a home in the 15000 block of Southwest Sunrise Lane in Tigard, Oregon…