Firefighters rescue, revive dog
Published: February 5, 2007
The good news from a home fire Thursday in Perry is one of the family dogs was revived.
No one was home at the time of the fire, Thursday about 3 p.m., except two dogs, Bo and Buster, said homeowner William Allford. Thanks to the efforts of EMT Ed Dixon and Paramedic Todd Surber from Houston Emergency Medical Services, Bo survived.
Firefighters found the dog inside the home after putting out the fire and brought him out for Surber and Dixon to work on. They gave the dog oxygen, putting a mask over his snout and massaged the dog for several minutes to resuscitate him. Allford’s wife Mary Bevin took the dog, once revived, to nearby Perry Animal Hospital on Courtney Hodges Boulevard.
Allford, who has shared the house on Oak Ridge Drive with his wife for about 10 years, said they had Bo for about a year. They had Buster, the smaller of the two, for four-five years, he said.
Perry Fire Department got the call on the fire at 2:57 p.m. and responded with two engines and called Warner Robins Fire Department to assist with a third engine. Flames were showing as the first units arrived.
Allford said he got off work about noon and came home and turned on a heater. He said the heater has a breaker to shut it off. “I don’t think that was it. I hadn’t been gone that long,” he said.
Perry Fire Department Deputy Chief Joel Gray said “we believe the fire was an accident from statements from the homeowner. There was a space heater in one of the back rooms.”
Gray said, “we won’t know for sure, because the rooms were badly destroyed from the fire. There was smoke damage in the rest of the home.”
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