Gregg Morin and his wife, Brooke Morin, were at a street fair about 40 minutes away from their house in Spokane, Wash., when they learned a nearby wildfire had started rapidly growing. They jumped in their car and started racing back home.

Initially, the couple closely monitored footage from their Ring home-security cameras on their cellphones. They were worried that their three small dogs, who they had left inside, would run out the dog door into the backyard.  LEARN MORE...