A dog saved its owners from a burning Brookfield home, and then firefighters saved the dog after it got trapped inside – but the daring rescue may not have been possible without the help of high school students.
Everyone involved in the heroics reunited at the Brookfield Fire Department on Tuesday, Feb. 14 to check in on the very special dog, Koda. "He loves to run," said Steve Mehnert. "He does the classic lab/retriever – chase ducks and pheasants and all that."
Koda proved to be more than just man's best friend earlier this month when his owner's home went up in flames. The dog woke up Mehnert and Jen Vaughn in the middle of the night.
"We would have died," Vaughn said. "We were told we would have been goners in 15 minutes from carbon monoxide."