Six-year-old Paige Nason woke up in the night to find her pillow smoldering. She get her mother and siblings up and the family escaped the fire that destroyed their home near Deer River, although mom was injured when she went back inside to retrieve the family pets.

A southern Minnesota mother is calling her baby girl a hero. Samantha Meeks told the Albert Lea Tribune her family may not have made it out of their home if wasn't for her daughter crying. The home was destroyed.

Firefighters are still looking into what caused the blaze Sunday evening. The storage and maintenance building is a complete loss. No injuries were reported and the nearby casino was never in any danger. According to WCCO, the pole barn was housing swans, which did not survive.

The company that managed the security system that failed when a woman needed it most is paying an undisclosed sum to her family. ADT Security Systems settled the lawsuit stemming for the murder five years ago of Teri Lee and her boyfriend. A sophisticated home intrusion alarm failed to alert the two when a jealous ex boyfriend broke into the house and shot the victims while they slept.

A fire broke out early Sunday morning at the Buck Hill ski and snowboard area in Burnsville. KARE 11 reports flames were shooting through a temporary tent structure when firefighters arrived. The haunted house was under construction and scheduled to open early next month. No injuries were reported and the cause of the blaze is still under investigation.

The McQuillan family lost everything in a house blaze.

A family that farms near Watkins in Stearns County came home over the weekend to discover a fire had destroyed their cattle barn -- but not the cattle. The sheriff's office reports a passerby noticed the flames and tried to alert the family. Finding them not at home, he turned the animals loose himself.

Severe weather and other emergency alerts are coming soon to Minnesotans' smartphones and cellphones. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety says it will be ready to send imminent threat alerts by the end of this week.