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Wisconsin Firefighters Reportedly Use Mouth-to-Nose Respiration to Save Family's Dog

A Wisconsin family's dog was reportedly rescued on Tuesday by firefighters who used artificial respiration to save the yellow Labrador after it had become trapped during a house fire. Firefighters responding to a fire on the second floor of a home at South Sixth Avenue and Callon Street in Wausau found the dog -- 7-year-old Coda -- sitting in a rocking chair, likely in shock, the Wausau Daily Herald reports. The dog was then carried outside, where firefighters performed mouth-to-nose artificial respiration and placed an oxygen mask typically intended for humans over the dog's nose. Firefighters Jamie Giese and Jared Thompson said they both had no normal training in animal rescue. "It was all improvised," Giese told the newspaper. Thompson, meanwhile, said he remembered a few tips from the former television show "Rescue 911." The dog was taken to a nearby animal hospital, where it spent the night to recuperate. Dwight Borchardt, 17, who returned home from walking the family's other dog -Cooper -- to find smoke throughout the second story, was not injured in the blaze. The family's two cats -- Lavender and Mocha -- were also unharmed.

This article was written in the United States in North America. It was written on October 19, 2011. I found this article on foxnews.com. This article does not affect me directly, but it does affect the dog and family that was involved. This article encourages my belief in firemen because they will try and save any animal that they can whether human or dog. In Wausau, Wisconsin, firemen arrived at the scene just in time to save a shocked animal from the fire. During a house fire, a yellow Labrador had been trapped inside a two story house unable to escape the flames. A firefighter used artificial respiration to save Coda, the familys dog. An oxygen mask, intended for humans only, was placed over Codas nose and mouth to keep him alive. Afterwards, he was brought to an animal hospital where he recuperated overnight returning to his family the following day unscathed.