Small dog found alive in ruins after S.F. fire

[sasha031]

A terrified brown Chihuahua was pulled early today from the debris of a four-alarm fire that destroyed an apartment building in San Francisco's South of Market 12 hours earlier, authorities said.

The tiny dog was found at 5 a.m., shaken but alive, in a closet on the third floor of a building on Russ Street. The building and two other structures were damaged as a result of a blaze that broke out at a three-story building at 1040 Folsom St. at 5:24 p.m. Wednesday, officials said.

Firefighter-paramedic Fred Putt was searching the building when he came across the animal, said Mindy Talmadge, a Fire Department spokesman. Putt told Battalion Chief Michael Thompson of his find, and Thompson thought at first that Putt was joking and would bring out a stuffed animal, authorities said.

Instead, it was a real pooch, albeit slightly singed.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/05/BAQO1JCG3B.DTL#ixzz1LW12tYUD

[hlthe2b]

1. Precious pooch.... I hope the rest of his life is full of "doggy happiness"

:loveya: