Guard dog braves barn fire to herd prized sheep to safety
January 27, 2006
CARNATION, Wash. -- A Great Pyrenees guard dog herded more than a dozen sheep to safety after a barn caught fire.
Diane Pagel and her husband, Jeff Freeman, initially thought they had lost as many as 20 prized sheep when the blaze broke out last week.
Then they discovered all but six sheep had been herded to safety by Kodiak, their guard dog.
''Sheep will go to where it is safe, and for them that was the barn, but apparently Kodiak got them out,'' Pagel said. ''He was the last one out of the barn because hair has been burned on his back legs and back.''
The barn was filled with smoke and flames when firefighters arrived, Eastside Fire and Rescue Chief Lee A. Soptich said. Fire crews had to go more than a mile for water and struggled to cool a 500-gallon propane tank outside the barn and keep it from exploding.
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Anna
January 27, 2006
CARNATION, Wash. -- A Great Pyrenees guard dog herded more than a dozen sheep to safety after a barn caught fire.
Diane Pagel and her husband, Jeff Freeman, initially thought they had lost as many as 20 prized sheep when the blaze broke out last week.
Then they discovered all but six sheep had been herded to safety by Kodiak, their guard dog.
''Sheep will go to where it is safe, and for them that was the barn, but apparently Kodiak got them out,'' Pagel said. ''He was the last one out of the barn because hair has been burned on his back legs and back.''
The barn was filled with smoke and flames when firefighters arrived, Eastside Fire and Rescue Chief Lee A. Soptich said. Fire crews had to go more than a mile for water and struggled to cool a 500-gallon propane tank outside the barn and keep it from exploding.
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Anna