Michigan Girl Credits Spiders For Rescuing Her From Fire

HEMLOCK, MI – Usually when animals alert people to a fire, they’re cute and cuddly furry things like dogs or cats.

However, a young woman who escaped from a fire here is crediting spiders for saving her life!

Danielle Vigue, 18, who hates spiders, says she awoke early Tuesday to find spiders in her room, and started killing them.

When more showed up, she says she went across the hall and got into bed with her 15-year-old sister, Lauren.

“At first there were five, they were all around the light fixture,” Danielle Vigue told The Saginaw News. “I hate spiders, they freak me out.”

A fire, the newspaper said, apparently was smoldering in the attic of the home about 90 miles northwest of Detroit.

A few hours later, Vigue’s 48-year-old mother, Debra, and 8-year-old sister, Shelby, smelled smoke, and flames greeted the family when they opened the door to the room Danielle Vigue had earlier left.

“I will never kill another spider again,” she told WNEM-TV in Saginaw.

Richland Township Fire Chief Gary Wade, a 30-year veteran of the Saginaw County department, was surprised by Vigue’s story.

“I’ve never heard of spiders saving someone from a fire before,” Wade said.

JOKESTARTERS:

• To honor these six-legged heroes, John Cougar Mellencamp is hosting a fundraiser called “Unsung Arachnid Firefighting Heroes” which will be sponsored by Raid and held in an old abandoned warehouse near Central Park.
• The weird thing about these spiders is that, upon closer inspection, investigators discovered tiny oxygen tanks on their backs. They all would’ve survived the fire if the freaky little teenager hadn’t have stomped them all to death.
• Ironically, actor Samuel L. Jackson had a similar incident happen, where dozens of snakes suddenly appeared coming out a light fixture on his airplane. Since he “hates muthafuckin’ snakes” he parachuted out, just in time – the plane burst into flames just as he escaped.

SOURCE:

• Centre Daily