{"id":304454,"date":"2017-03-24T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=304454"},"modified":"2017-03-24T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T12:21:13","slug":"us-firefighter-saves-lifeless-dog-with-mouth-to-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=304454","title":{"rendered":"US firefighter saves lifeless dog with mouth-to-mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A US firefighter has been praised for giving a dog 20 minutes of “mouth-to-snout” resuscitation after the animal was rescued from a house fire.<\/p>\n

The dog was overcome by the heat and smoke of the blaze in Santa Monica, California, and was unresponsive.<\/p>\n

But firefighter Andrew Klein managed to bring 10-year-old Nalu, a Bichon Frise\/Shih Tzu, “back from the dead”.<\/p>\n

Mr Klein discovered Nalu unconscious in a back bedroom after crawling on all fours into the blazing apartment.<\/p>\n

“He was totally lifeless,” the firefighter told the Associated Press news agency. “I picked him up and ran out of the apartment because time is key, especially with a small dog… Failure was not an option.”<\/p>\n

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As the dog’s distraught owner Crystal Lamirande knelt crying nearby, Mr Klein and his crew spent the next 20 minutes giving the dog oxygen and performing “mouth-to-snout” resuscitation.<\/p>\n

“After 20 minutes, the dog began breathing on its own and regained consciousness, even regaining the ability to walk around,” the Santa Monica Fire Department said in a press release.<\/p>\n

Nalu has now fully recovered after spending 24 hours in an oxygen tent.<\/p>\n

Ms Lamirande, a radiology nurse, said she was overwhelmed by the effort made by Mr Klein and his team to save her dog.<\/p>\n

“His eyes were glazed over and he was not breathing and I assumed he was dead,” she said. “But the firefighter said ‘I’m a positive person. Let’s just get him back’.”
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