TORONTO – A firefighter is being called an angel by locals after attempting to rescue a puppy from a house fire and giving it mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
According to U.K. media, Carlos Arana and his team were battling a blaze in Valencia, Spain, when they reportedly found an unconscious two month-old Yorkshire Terrier—and a 10-year-old poodle—under a collapsed stairwell.
It was then that Arana “grabbed the puppy and ran outside where he started pumping its chest.”
“The poor little thing was completely limp but Carlos was determined to save him,” said fireman Cristobel Jover Badia, who filmed the incident on his phone. “He put an oxygen mask over its muzzle but when neither that nor the pumping worked he carefully pried its mouth open and started giving it mouth-to-mouth.”
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“It all happened very fast,” said neighbour Nacho Rueda in an interview with The Daily Mail. “The fire crew arrived and had put out the huge flames within minutes.”
“But the fireman wouldn’t stop and after about five minutes the puppy started to move its legs.”
Both the poodle and puppy were then rushed to a nearby vet for proper treatment. While the poodle received a “clean bill of health” conflicting media reports state the puppy later died “as a result of complications from the fire.”
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