Four dogs are dead after a house fire broke out late Monday afternoon on the 500 block of Dennis Way in Bowling Green.

Katie McKee, public information officer for the Bowling Green Fire Department, said the animals were deceased when they were removed from the house and taken outside. Efforts to revive them were unsuccessful.

All residents of the house are safe and were taken by EMS, a precautionary measure. None of the residents have any reported injuries.

McKee said investigators stayed “pretty late” at the scene, but it will be some time before a cause for the fire is determined.

“As of right now, we don’t have any leads on what the potential cause of the fire could be,” McKee said. “(The investigator) will be working with the accelerant detection canine and will spend some time out there.”

BGFD received the call for the fire at 4:13 p.m. McKee said by the time first responders arrived, the residents were already outside.

“(Responders) arrived on the scene to a fully involved house and they got to work and got it extinguished really quickly,” McKee said. “As other crews got on scene, it was just heavy smoke at that point.”

The fire was brought under control by 4:32 p.m. “Fully involved” means fire personnel were able to see flames coming out from multiple parts of the house.

McKee said the dogs were taken by the Bowling Green/Warren County Humane Society after they were killed.

“If we’re asked to assist, we’ll do anything we can to help a family,” Bowling Green/Warren County Humane Society Executive Director Lorri Hare said.

Hare said once the Humane Society retrieves remains of pets, they can either hold the remains for the owners or coordinate cremation arrangements for them. Hare said the Humane Society has been called out three separate times in the past six months to take deceased pets.

“I feel like that says something about the great response times from fire departments,” Hare said. “If a fire went on for a long period of time, you wouldn’t be able to retrieve those animals’ bodies.”

Jason Dotson, disaster program manager for the Southcentral Kentucky Chapter of the American Red Cross, said the organization has reached out to the residents of the house but has not heard back yet.

Dotson said the Red Cross provides immediate assistance to those affected by house fires.

“Typically we provide assistance to allow folks to stay in a hotel to get that first 24 to 48 hours to breathe and then connect them on the road to recovery,” Dotson said.