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