Bella the Wonderdog

Last week some weird things started to happen around the house. To start, I was in the living room in the middle of the night (I haven't really been sleeping well these last two weeks, so I get up a lot in the middle of the night) and this bright flash/spark went off. I was pretty sure it was from this one outlet, but it was also 2 in the morning and I was tired, so I just brushed it off. The next day we heard this sizzling noise coming from the same area, again, we weren't too worried. Later that night I was laying on the couch and Bella kept climbing on top of me and sniffing the wall behind the couch, it was so weird, she's never done anything like that. The next day, one of our lamps started turning on and off on its own, even though the light switch was turned off. We pulled the couch back (same place Bella wouldn't stop sniffing the night before) and saw that the outlet looked like it had been burned. We immediately called Paul, Kurt's dad, who is an electrician. Even though he was terribly sick (so was Kurt at this point) he checked out our outlets and found this in two places! The outlet was burning from the inside out..yikes! Here's another pic of Bella sniffing things out with the help of 'Daddy'.