An Unusual Task

Firefighters in Wisconsin had an unusual task in front of them when they appeared on the scene of a house fire on Tuesday.

A fire had started on the second floor of a home while the family’s 17 year old son Dwight Brochardt was out walking one of their dogs.

He returned to the house and was met by clouds of smoke stemming from upstairs.

Coda Is Found

Knowing that both his father, Todd Borchardt and his father’s fiancee, Kim Carlson, were out of the house, Dwight went upstairs to find the rest of the family’s pets.

The family’s cats, named Lavender and Mocha, and a friend’s yellow Labrador called Coda that they were taking care of were all still missing in the house, but the smoke was too overwhelming for Dwight so he ran outside.

The fire was reported around 4.00pm and fire fighters found Coda sitting on a rocking chair, probably in shock, in the room where the fire is thought to have started.

Firefighters were photographed carrying a limp Coda that wasn’t breathing out of the burning house, and they didn’t let their training go to waste.

While they are more used to dealing with unconscious humans, firefighters Jamie Giese and Jared Thompson performed mouth-to-nose artificial respiration on Coda in an attempt to revive the animal.

They also splashed his soot-covered fur with water and later used an oxygen mask to bring life back to the pet.

Thankfully, the quick-thinking worked: Coda was taken to two different pet hospitals and stayed in the latter overnight to recover.