CLARKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) - A woman has died after rushing into her burning eastern Missouri home to save her pets.

St. Louis broadcaster KTVI-TV is reporting that Marianne Allison died Friday in the fire in Clarksville.  Allison and her husband escaped from their home after flames broke out around 6 a.m. Friday. But KTVI reports that Allison returned for her six cats, five dogs, three birds and a fox. She never made it back out of her house, and only one dog escaped.

Friends said she loved animals.  The cause of the blaze is under investigation. A dispatcher in Pike County said she did not have any information about the blaze.

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