Officials have said that one of a Pennsylvania family's dogs set off a fire but another was able to alert the family to the blaze in their Cumberland County home.

WGAL-TV, Lancaster, Pa., reported on Tuesday that the Sunday fire in the house in Hampden Township started after one of the dogs nudged a knob on the stove, turning on a burner that caused a blaze to spread throughout the kitchen.

It was further reported that another family dog, a 2-year-old coon hound named Breech, went into the bedroom of 12-year-old Tyler Hay.

Hay said, "He pulled me off the bed and then I woke up and I just saw pitch black."

WGAL-TV also said that Paige, the dog that accidentally started the fire, died in the blaze along with many other family pets.

Tyler's father, Howard Hay, said, "I get emotional when I think about it. We can replace dogs not their personalities, but we can get more dogs. We can't replace Tyler."

The fire investigators said the five people asleep at the time of the blaze were lucky to be alive as the house had no smoke detectors.

They normally take the knobs off the stove, the family said. (With Inputs from Agencies)