The smoke has cleared after a Monday morning fire in Barboursville. Home owner Dawn Schroder is thankful for her two smoke detectors.

"We got one that's real sensitive," Schroder said. "But we test them once a month...they went off this morning."

Now Schroder is stressing the importance of working smoke detectors. She is also thanking those who gave the detectors to her.

"The smoke detectors that they had were actually given to them by us two years ago on a grant," Barboursville Volunteer Fire Department Lt. Andrew Frazier said.

The grant allowed the B.V.F.D. to donate smoke detectors to local senior citizens.

Schroder is grateful that the detectors worked, because without them, she fears the outcome wouldn't have been the same.

As for Lt. Frazier, he says he hates to see someone lose their home, but glad to see the department's grant pay off.

"It makes us feel good to know that what we intended to do with that grant when we got it, that the grant worked, that the people did put the smoke detectors up, they did use them and it did save their life," Frazier said.

All three people inside the house made it out safely, as well as two of the family's three cats.