'Help! Fire!' Talking parrots cause house fire confusion 
 
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 BOISE, Idaho (KBOI) - Emergency crews responded to a structure fire in Canyon County Friday night that caused some confusion. 
 
 
 
 Canyon County Dispatch says the fire was reported just west of Duff Lane on Highway 44, which is just outside Middleton. 
 
 
 
 When firefighters arrived, they heard noises inside the house which lead them to believe there were people inside. 
 
 
 
 Once they got the flames contained, though, they discovered that the noises were actually coming from two parrots that were "talking". 
 
 
 
 Firefighters say the birds were actually saying "Help!" and "Fire!" 
 
 
 
 Crews removed the birds from the home and gave them oxygen. They are expected to be all right. 
 
 
 
 No people were found inside the house. 
 
 
 
 The cause of the fire is under investigation. 
 
 
 
 More details will be reported as they become available. 

 Emergency crews responding to a house fire in Idaho Friday night expected to find an elderly woman inside the home when they heard cries of "help" and "fire." 
 
 But after an extensive search, firefighters were only able to find two parrots — one who happened to be more verbal than the other. 
 
 Calls about the two-alarm blaze in rural Boise came into the Middleton Fire Department at about 9:30 p.m., said Victor Islas, a community relations officer for the department. 
 
 "Once the captain did his walk-around, he could hear something or someone inside yelling, 'help, fire, help, fire,'" Islas said. Crews went into "rescue mode" and called for backup, thinking that the calls for help were coming from an elderly female, Islas said. 
 
 When firefighters couldn't find anyone in the house, they started using thermal imagery technology, which detected no people, but rather, a parrot sitting on a table, Islas said. 
 
 The boisterous female parrot was rescued, along with a quieter male parrot. The female parrot was given oxygen by way of an adult oxygen mask, Islas said. She immediately perked up and started to imitate the sounds of the sirens, he said. 
 
 No one was injured in the fire, which ended up being contained to only one room in the house, according to the Middleton Fire Department. 
 
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 Crew quickly extinguish fire in Middleton. Fire is out, no injuries reported. @starfiredist @CFDPIO pic.twitter.com/sSy4jp76GP — Middleton Fire (@Midfire) April 18, 2015 
 
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– The fire department in Middleton, Idaho, says they're smart parrots—and if they hadn't been, they might be dead parrots. Officials say that when firefighters arrived at a house fire near Boise Friday night, they investigated cries of "Help!" and "Fire!" and, instead of the elderly woman they were expecting, they found a pair of parrots, KBOI2 reports. A fire department spokesman tells NBC News that when no people were found inside the house, thermal imagery technology revealed the parrots on the table. The spokesman says both parrots were fine after being given oxygen—and after being taken from the building, the noisier of the pair started imitating the sirens she heard. (A parrot in Florida is credited with saving the lives of its owners by waking them up during a house fire.)