Papatoetoe senior firefighter and animal lover Dora Dehar treating dog "Lucky Sooty" who is wrapped up in a blanket.
Papatoetoe senior firefighter and animal lover Dora Dehar treating dog "Lucky Sooty" who is wrapped up in a blanket.
A dog saved from a fire at an Otahuhu flat after figherfighers administered oxygen has since died.
Emergency services were alerted to the blaze around 7.20pm. Seven crews were at the scene and there are no reports of injury to humans. The flat is in a block of six onNikau Rd in the Auckland suburb.
Papatoetoe senior firefighter Dora Dehar was handed the dog at the scene. She thought it was in the burning flat for around 20 minutes but had no burns. The animal was suffering from smoke inhalation with a swollen throat and tongue, and dry nose. They tried syringing water onto its tongue but the dog's tongue was so swollen it couldn't get it back in his mouth.
"He wasn't in a very good shape at all, so I took him out to the front and asked someone to grab oxygen out of the first aid kit. We put him on the baby resuscitation oxygen."
Manakau after hours veterinary clinic practice manager Jedda Ford said their team are very upset that the dog has died after working on him for hours. She said they tried CPR to resuscitate him but it didn't work.
"It's not good news. The dog just passed away. We tried everything we could, the vet and nurse worked quite a long time.
"We pulled out all the stops."
Ford said they had the 2.4kg dog on oxygen the whole time, took xrays and ran a full panel of bloods. This is fully-funded by the clinic.
