Thanks to a three-year-old pet dog Bravo, a family in Greater Noida was saved from a fire in the nick of time. The incident happened on Sunday evening at a duplex villa in Greenwoods society in Omega 1.
38-year-old resident Shesh Sarangdhar, who lives with his pregnant wife said, “I was irritated by Bravo’s constant barking and pounding at our bedroom door. When I opened it to see what was wrong, I found the entire house was filled with smoke.” The smoke was coming from their kitchen downstairs and found that their stove and woodwork were on fire.
“There was so much smoke that I could not see anything. I started dousing the fire with some buckets of water,” said Sarangdhar. “It was a narrow escape for us because if Bravo had not raised an alarm in the nick of time, the smoke would have crept into our rooms as well and hurt us in our sleep.”
Sarangdhar had adopted Bravo, who is an Indie dog, in March. “We used to stay in Sector 119 where I used to feed the street dogs. In December, when we decided to move here, we adopted four of them. When we take a nap during the day, all four dogs like to snooze on the terrace. When the incident happened, only Bravo was awake and indoors,” said Shesh.
He later got to know that his wife had left the stove with a pan full of oil before sleeping and forgot about it. That is how the kitchen caught fire. “We did not have to call the fire brigade as I was able to control the fire on my own,” said Shesh.
Aparna Bose Dey, an adoption coordinator with NGO Dhyan Foundation that runs the animal shelter in Sector 94, said that the incident shows how alert and smart street dogs are. “In our society, we often look down upon Indie street dogs but this heartfelt story shows how sensible and alert Indies are. Shesh is part of our animal lovers group on social media because of which we got to know about the incident. This story struck a chord with all animal lovers,” she said.
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