{"id":7004,"date":"2019-06-04T18:30:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=249183"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:12","slug":"mom-thinks-baby-died-until-firefighters-say-the-family-dog-made-ultimate-sacrifice-to-save-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/mom-thinks-baby-died-until-firefighters-say-the-family-dog-made-ultimate-sacrifice-to-save-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom Thinks Baby Died Until Firefighters Say The Family Dog Made Ultimate Sacrifice To Save Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">In August 2016, Erika Poremski was at home in Baltimore with her eight-month-old daughter Viviana and dog Polo when a nasty storm blew out the electricity.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Erika lit some candles in the dark and tried to make a phone call, but her battery was dead. She rushed outside to charge her phone from the car.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">It only took moments for the nightmare to unfold. By the time Erika looked back at her home from inside the car, she was met with a horrific sight: her house was on fire with Viviana and Polo trapped inside.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">The smoke was so heavy that Erika couldn\u2019t get past the staircase downstairs. The skin on her hand melted off as she grabbed the railing \u2014 but she was so determined to save Viviana that she barely noticed her injuries.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">By this point, her neighbors had also gathered around to try and help, but no one could make it upstairs to reach the little girl.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249205\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-baby-dog-ultimate-sacrifice\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" class=\"size-large wp-image-249205 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hero-2-1200x627.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hero-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hero-2-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hero-2-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hero-2-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hero-2-1000x523.jpg 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1600px) 992px, (min-width:1200px) 768px, (min-width:518px) 480px, (min-width:325px) 320px, 300px\"\/><\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Photo: YouTube\/WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Firefighters arrived to the scene and burst into the home. Erika stood outside in shock and panic, terrified it was too late and that Viviana did not make it.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">After a few horrifying minutes, the fire crew emerged from the flames with the eight-month-old baby cradled in their arms. Miraculously, Viviana was still alive.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">But then the firefighters told Erika what her beloved dog Polo had done as the flames engulfed her house: he had covered the baby\u2019s body with his own to protect her.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">And he had died doing so.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Watch the video to learn more about this heartbreaking, touching story.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><span class=\"empty\">Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-baby-dog-ultimate-sacrifice\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2016, Erika Poremski was at home in Baltimore with her eight-month-old daughter Viviana and dog Polo when a nasty storm blew out the electricity.Erika lit some candles in the dark and tried to make a phone call, but her battery was dead. She rushed outside to charge her phone from the car.It only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45779,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions\/45779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}