20160822 Korea Family dog dies after saving baby from fire
Korea Aug 22 2016 “Houses”
Dead : dead 0 or unknown Burnout : 1 to 29 Injured : injured 0 or unknown
Family dog dies after saving baby from fire
Updated: 2016-08-22 15:21
By Lee Jin-a
A dog heroically saved an eight-month-old baby from a house fire by shielding the infant from the flames using its own body.
According to a CBS report, Friday, a fire broke out at the home of Erika Poremski, who lived with her daughter Viviana and their dog Polo in Baltimore, Maryland. Poremski arrived at home to discover the fire, while her daughter and dog were still inside.
“I tried to keep getting in. She was up the stairs, but the fire smoke was so heavy I couldn’t get past it,” said Poremski. “I kept running back out and back in, trying to get up there. Then, the door curling started falling and I couldn’t get back in.”
From the several attempts to rescue her daughter, Poremski suffered burns on her hands and face. However, she was so desperate that she did not notice that part of the skin on her hand came off when she grabbed a hot railing.
“I couldn’t see all the skin was off my hand from grabbing the rail and it melted off,” she told CBS News.
When firefighters finally reached the house, they found Polo shielding Viviana with his own body. Only suffering from the burn on her arm and sides, the baby was revived at the scene. But Polo did not survive.
“He was my first baby before Viv. He was like my child,” Poremski said weeping. “I’m losing everything I love in the blink of an eye. I feel like I’m drowning and can’t get out.”
The local fire department said the cause of the fire is under investigation.
Web Source: Korea times
http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/world/2016/08/501_212436.html