Michael Orchard of Saratoga County was arrested on charges of burglary and criminal mischief, with bail set at $15,000.  But he was only doing what was right, right?

Though there definitely was no fire, Orchard says he saw the home being ravaged by flames, so he began banging on neighbors’ doors for help.  No one would help, so he drove his car through the neighbor’s fence, then smashed through the door and fetched the dog.

Police officers arrived to find Orchard triumphantly emerge with the large white dog, according to NBC New York.

“He believed that the residence was on fire and he was rescuing the dog,” State Police Troop G spokesman Mark Cepiel told NBC 13.  “He drove over yards and through the fence. At no point was he on the roadway and no illegal substances were found in his possession.”

Orchard was very cooperative, and damages are already being repaired.

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Keith Mann is the manager of flight operations for Suncor Energy, which has a private airline for employees.  But when dozens of animals needed to be evacuated alongside their humans, he was glad to help them, too.

“We didn’t want any people to make the decision to stay behind because they couldn’t take their pets so we sort of broke, or bended our policies on the carriage of pets to let that happen,” he told HuffPost Canada.

A menagerie made their way on board – dogs, cats, rabbits, chinchillas, a hedgehog, a frog, and possibly even a pig.

“It was a range of pets, so you can just imagine the potential of it. But once they got airborne it was just total tranquility

“Our crews made sure the number of pets they would take inside the cabin they could carry safely, so the largest number we had was 36 in the cabin.”

An enormous dog, weighing nearly 200 pounds, sat right in a seat like everyone else.

“He just hopped into a seat and wouldn’t get out, so we were trying to encourage him to sit on the ground.”

Two dogs had to be locked in the bathroom for the safety of some of the smaller critters on board, and Mann said a family of five dogs just huddled together.

“It was pretty quiet when we were up in the air,” he told The Star. “You could just tell everyone was so happy to be out of camp and on their way.”

People have not been charged to fly with this airline.  Money has been the last thing anyone’s worried about.  The safety of people and their pets has been the sole concern.

“It was ‘worry about it after’. The main thing was make sure we had enough airplanes and enough time to get people out and do it safely because it was a mass effort,” Mann said.

“It’s not a big airport we’re talking about. It’s got one tarmac and one runway. And we had to coordinate all the airplanes taking off and landing and loading. So that was the primary focus.”

This has certainly been one of the most memorable experiences in Mann’s piloting career.

“It’s definitely one of those things you never imagine yourself doing,” he said, laughing. “But I’m glad we did it.”

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“We were outside with my telescope, looking at Jupiter with my next door neighbor,” neighbor Chip Dover told TODAY Parents. “We were getting ready to come in when we heard a big explosion, and the house just blew up. We ran over there immediately and it was burning like crazy, and then we realized the family was still inside.”

Using furniture on the porch, they broke the front windows of the Longwood, Florida home belonging to military veterans Margo and Brent Feaser.

“One of the neighbors saw an occupant in one of the rooms and picked up a table and smashed through the window, all the windows acutally, and pulled the woman to safety,” Seminole Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Dennis Lemma told News 13.

“The employee [Margo, an auto theft investigator], when she initially came out, her primary concern was to get back inside and rescue her children. She is an absolute trouper. She is a hero within our organization, and her actions tonight demonstrated that behavior.”

Firefighters arrived moments later and pulled Brent to safety.  But his four-year-old son and two-year-old daughter were still inside, along with Maxx.  The heroic dog led firefighters through the smothering smoke to the children’s bedroom.

All of the family members, including Maxx, were taken to various hospitals for treatment of their serious to critical conditions, but all are expected to recover.

“We are grateful to the neighbors who jumped into action, and we especially thank the firefighters who selflessly entered the burning structure and risked their lives for the Feaser family,” said Sheriff Don Eslinger.

“There is a long road of recovery and rebuilding ahead, but our Sheriff’s Office family will be with Margo and her family every step of the way. We know our community is behind them too, and we appreciate the tremendous outpouring of support the family has received.”

A fundraiser has been set up to help the Feaser family cover their medical costs and find a new home.  If you would like to donate, please click here.

Checks and money orders may be made out to “Seminole County Sheriff’s Office Employee Benevolent Fund” and sent to 100 Bush Boulevard, Sanford, FL 32773, attention: “Feaser Family Fund.” Anyone with questions is asked to call 407-665-6880.

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A power strip with a cell phone charging on it was plugged in behind the girl’s headboard.  When the outlet and cord sparked around 6 am, fire quickly spread around the bed.  It was just creeping up to her pillow when Gizmo frantically started barking.

She and the rest of the family were startled awake and rushed out of the home.  While they did have smoke alarms, they were unaware that they were not functioning.

“The only thing that alerted the family in the house was the fact that their dog awakened, barked and woke up the people in the house,” Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Services Station Commander Kevin O’Neill told the Belfast Telegraph.

“They evacuated out of the house, got into the car and waited on the fire service and never returned to the house.

“That is positive and I would commend them for their actions in getting out and staying out and waiting on the fire and rescue service arriving.

“There is always that temptation and what we are trying to do is to reinforce the message to let us deal with the incident. If you were to re-enter there’s the chance you could be overcome by the smoke so we want to emphasize the point that you get out and stay out.”

The girl suffered only a minor burn to her arm, and was treated at the scene.

“It was only because the dog wakened her that she was able to get up and escape otherwise I’ve no doubt the next thing that would have caught fire would have been the pillow and her hair,” O’Neill said.

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The house, located at 1883 NW 83 Terrace en West Little River, Miami, was not equipped with smoke detectors or fire alarms. If it wasn’t for the heroic dog, the residents would have died.

The pet owners say everything happened very fast. They had little time to think and were scared for their lives. Once the humans were safe outside the home they realized they forgot to save their hero’s life.

Fortunately firefighters arrived on the property, controlled the fire and save the little hero.

No one suffered any injuries

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Carl, according to Smith, started acting strange.  On or around about the 22^nd of January, Carl started acting nervous every time they would leave and come back together.  Leaving wasn’t hard, but Carl seemed to have some reservations about going back inside.

Smith didn’t think much of it.  Who knows?  Some of our readers will agree that dogs can act strange for many reasons, not all of them rational.  However, once Carl woke Smith in the middle of the night, Smith knew that something HAD to be amiss.

“He’s not a dog that barks a lot,” Smith said.  “For the first three weeks, I didn’t even know if he could bark because I’d never heard him.”

Smith woke up, got out of bed and turned the lights on.  What he saw next was something that almost no one is really ready for after being woken up by their dog in the middle of the night.  The apartment was filling with smoke.  It was on fire!

Firefighters would later tell Smith that there were smoldering embers, crackling away in the walls of the apartment.  This had apparently been going on for days before it developed into a full blown blaze.  Not only was Carl the only one to recognize what was going on, but had he not woke Smith in the middle of the night like he did, we may have been reporting a very

Carl told news outlets that he actually got lucky not once, but twice.  He almost didn’t adopt Carl at first, because there were some pretty tough dental issues he needed addressed, and it could have cost him a lot of money to get all of it fixed.  He adopted Carl anyway, and not only did the dental work not really amount to anything as bad as imagined, but just imagine what it would have cost Smith if he HAD passed on Carl…

“I’m glad that I saw through what physical flaws he may have had,” said Smith.  “Who knows if I would have woken up?”

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I can’t find the original video in where I saw it, but there it was stated the dogs owner was standing outside of the house as it was burning and said to the dog: “Buddy, we need to get help.” It was only at this point that the dog ran off until it found the trooper. It’s somewhere around this point that the gif begins and the dog starts running back home (Also note that there’s a good chunk of video missing in the image). The trooper stated that the dog on numerous occasions looked over it’s shoulder and slowed down if the distance between them was too far, as if to make sure that he was following. Also, when the fire had been extinguished, the trooper told the firefighters about what the dog had done. They then told him that the dog had done the exact same thing with them, when it saw their truck.
You can try using fear and instincts as a rationalization for the dogs actions, but fact of the matter is that the dogs owner was in deep shit and told his dog to get help, to which the dog responded by bringing back a police cruiser and a firetruck.”

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At first, the dog seemed very scared, and didn’t want anything worse to happen.  The dog pretty much refused to leave the human’s side, so rescuers had to distract it to administer first aid.

They tried to call the dog away, but that wasn’t happening.  So, they grabbed a standard fire extinguisher, and sprayed it off in the air.  The noise got the dog to leave the man’s side, and the man was saved.

Firefighters said that the dog was never aggressive in any way towards them.  They knew the dog was scared for his human, and they understood that.  Even after they got to the man and administered first aid, the dog eventually made his way back to the man, and laid down by his side again.

The man is expected to be OK, and is in the good hands at a local hospital.  The man’s daughter was also in the home at the time, but was not badly injured and is expected to be just fine as well.  Rescue teams also took two turtles and a couple other dogs out of harm’s way as well, and all are doing just fine.

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Most elementary schools have programs to teach kids about fire prevention and safety.  But the kids in Indiana get to learn about these things in a much more fun way, thanks to retired firefighter Jeff Owens and his black Labs.

Owens began The Kasey Program in 1995, and has been training and teaching for the last 20 years.  It started with the original Kasey, who has since died.  There are currently three black Labs in the program – senior KD, 4-year-old Kohl, and 14-week-old Kali.  KD will soon be retiring, and Kohl will be taking over.

The dogs show kids how to check a door to see if it’s hot, how to crawl below smoke, and how to stop, drop and roll.  They are shown by Owens what to do if they find lighters and matches, and told to make sure they have two exits from every room and a place to meet up once everyone gets out.

The firefighter uses songs to help the kids remember what they learn.  So far The Kasey Program has saved at least 15 lives.  The program has been mostly limited to schools in the Indianapolis area, but Owens and the dogs will soon be on the road to visit schools nationwide.

“I can prevent a firefighter from having to pull a child out,” Owens says.  “And I know how traumatizing it is to the firefighters, let alone the trauma sustained by the families.  So that’s what drives me to go out and teach as much as I do.”

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In Newfoundland Canada, a two-storey house was on fire at around 3 in the morning. The only person in the house at that time was a tenant living in the basement apartment, and with him was a Dachshund named Charlie. The man was asleep by the time the fire broke out. He was woken up not by the smoke alarm, but because of Charlie’s incessant barking. When he woke up, the basement was already covered with pitch black smoke. He was lucky that Charlie the Dachshund was there to warn him about the fire, or he wouldn’t have gotten out in time.

Watch the video below for the fully story!

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Bark.com is a great website for dog lovers. They have decided to start giving dogs that very much deserve one, a “Best Day Ever.” Of course we at Life with Dogs think that this is a great idea. All dogs deserve a BDE, but here’s the story of Susie. Her former owner put her through such abuse, then finally set her on fire, and left her for dead. Now with human mom Donna, Susie’s life is much, much better.

It’s no secret that we at Bark & Co think dogs are the greatest and deserve to be celebrated, but when we came across the incredible story of Susie and her mom, Donna, we knew we had another mission. We wanted to create an opportunity for deserving dogs to have a day where their dreams come true. Thus, Dog’s Best Day was born!

As a puppy, Susie suffered horrendous abuse at the hands of her first owner. Meanwhile, her future mom, Donna, went through her own struggle. But fate brought the two together, and Susie and Donna helped each other heal. Since they found one another, they’ve gone on to do great things: from winning harsher sentencing of convicted animal abusers (Susie’s Law), to Susie’s work as a canine therapy dog for other burn victims, to educating the public through their nonprofit, Susie’s Hope.

With help from our pup-ruvin’ pals, we were able to treat Susie and her mom to a truly special day in New York City:

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Sadly, despite this heroic pup’s efforts, Carmen’s beloved human did not survive the fire. Authorities found her covering his face in an attempt to block smoke from entering his lungs. In turn, she suffered severe internal injuries and was promptly rushed to the vet, where the staff believed she only had a 50% chance of surviving the tragic incident.

But now, finally, some good news has surfaced from this horrific situation. Over $30,000 was raised to help pay for this sweet nine-year-old boxer’s care, and she has officially recovered enough to go home with her human uncle after being pulled from the flames that took her best friend away.

The video is so bittersweet – precious Carmen is clearly excited to see some familiar faces, but ultimately this homecoming is going to be extremely difficult for everyone involved.

So moving. It’s amazing to think this is the same dog who was barely hanging on to life just a couple of weeks ago. Such a sweet, loving girl despite everything she’s been through. So inspiring – we’re wishing Carmen and her human family the very best as they navigate this tough time.

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An elderly woman was pulled out from her burning home by her neighbors in the middle of the night. At 11 o’clock, the 67-year-old woman was sleeping in her living room when she woke up to a massive fire. She crawled into the garage, but she was trapped because she couldn’t open the door. While all of this was happening, the neighbor’s dog, was barking frantically. The Boxer wouldn’t stop barking till her humans got out of bed and came outside. The neighbors then hurried next door and saved the elderly woman. Watch the video below for the full story.

The neighbors may have saved the woman, but I believe the true hero in this story is the neighbor’s dog. If it wasn’t for her barking, they wouldn’t have gotten out of bed to save the elderly woman. This dog should be given a reward, don’t you agree?

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Norman Santiago is king in his children’s eyes after he ran up to their third floor apartment to save his daughter’s dog from the fire that had broken out.  While he was up there, he also was able to save a neighbor’s life by warning her of the danger while she still had time to get out.

The father of three was closing up the Market Street Sports Bar and Restaurant he manages in Bangor, Pennsylvania early on New Year’s Eve morning when he heard screaming.  Santiago heading up the alley towards his apartment building when he realized the terrified shouts were his own children’s.

His eldest daughter, 16-year-old Noriya, was crying.  She explained that her 10-year-old dog Malo was trapped upstairs.  Flames emerging from the top floor could be seen on the street below.  Santiago bolted inside.

It appeared that the fire was on the other side of the building from his apartment, so he believed he had enough time to make it.  When Santiago got up there, he could hear Malo crying and scratching at the door.

“And I did make it,” he said.  “I would have taken a burn for him.”

Santiago grabbed Malo and began to dash downstairs.  He watched as a door on the second floor collapsed, and found that his neighbor’s door was locked.  He banged on the door until she answered.  She was unaware of the fire, and grabbed her coat to rush outside with them.

The hero couldn’t fully absorb the whirlwind of events – he was just grateful that everybody – including his ten-year-old daughter Soniya and seven-year-old son Noel – made it out alive.

“I thank God because even though it was a tragedy, everyone came out safe,” Santiago said.

The first and second floor may be salvageable, but the third floor has been completely ravaged. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined. The American Red Cross of the Greater Lehigh Valley is helping the 12 affected people (and Malo) with food, clothing, coats and lodging.

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