Fire crews pour water on a house fire Tuesday morning at 113 E. 1000 Road in rural Douglas County, west of Baldwin City.

Several dogs died in a Tuesday morning house fire west of Baldwin City, firefighters said.

No people were seriously injured, but the house is considered a total loss.

At 10:13 a.m. firefighters received a report of a two-story house on fire at 113 East 1000 Road, said Willow Springs Fire Department Assistant Chief Clint Hornberger. The only resident of the home, a man, was forced to jump out of the home’s second-story window to escape the flames.

“He was asleep and woke up and the room was full of smoke,” Hornberger said. “He went to go down the stairs, but the stairs had fire in them so he had to go out the window.”

“He was not injured,” he added. “He’ll be a little sore or a little bruised up from the fall, but he didn’t break anything. No injuries from the fire.”

Firefighters had the fire out by around 11:15 a.m., Hornberger said.

None of the approximately 10 dogs living in the house at the time of the fire survived, Hornberger said.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but Hornberger said the cause appears to be accidental.

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