Working smoke alarms are being hailed as the reason a family in White Oaks was able to escape their home in the middle of the night without injury.
London fire crews responded to a home on Nicholas Crescent just after 2:30 a.m. Friday morning to a fully involved fire.
The family and pets had already evacuated the home before fire crews arrived, but the house is considered destroyed with a damage estimate of $550,000.
Fire investigators were still on scene Friday afternoon, as a cause has yet to be released for the blaze.
