Colorado Deputy Michael Gregorek of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the scene of a vehicular fire and found a man throwing something at the smoking vehicle. It turned out that the man was the owner of the car and his dog, Hank, was inside.
Thick smoke was filling the cabin as Deputy Gregorek used his retractable baton to break the car’s back window. The owner tried pulling his dog out of the window, but the smoke was too thick.
Deputy Gregorek took a deep breath as he approached the smoke filled back window, grabbed Hank, and pulled him out with all his might.
Hank was coughing and his body had started to tense up as Deputy Gregorek tossed him gently into the snow. “Nothing else mattered at that point except Hank getting out of the car,” Deputy Gregorek said in an interview.
“I’m a dog parent. My only child is my dog. I would have done the same thing whether baby, human, dog, cat. A life is a life and you treat is as such in a situation like that,” the deputy continued.
Watch the incredible moment and Hank’s heartfelt “thank you” in the body camera footage below!