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Fire Injures Dogs At Tehachapi Rescue
POSTED: 4:56 pm PDT April 30, 2009
UPDATED: 6:33 pm PDT April 30, 2009
TEHACHAPI, Calif. -- Four dogs were injured Saturday at the German Shepherd Rescue in Tehachapi after the mobile home on the property caught fire.The rescue has two locations, one is a sanctuary in Tehachapi for unadoptable shepherds, the other is in Burbank.The one in Burbank is where the rescue’s founder was when the fire broke out.
Grace Konosky said her neighbor called her in Burbank and said her house was on fire.Konosky said, "One of my neighbors called and said I should come right up here, that the place was on fire, so I came up.”She said when she got the phone call, all she could think about were her dogs."I lost everything I have in that mobile home, but my dogs are more important, much more important,” Konosky said.During the fire, there were 13 dogs on the property.Her four personal dogs that were fenced in around the home suffered smoke inhalation as well as burns."They ran in the fire and their paws got burned. And then one is long haired, and he was semi on fire, but they just doused him with water,” she said.She credited Bear Valley police Officer Laura Hutchinson for saving her dogs' lives.“She was the one who really saved my dogs. I mean she came up and went in and got the two that ran back into the house. She really saved the lives of the dogs," said Konosky.Two of the dogs have already been released, but two still remain in the hospital as they receive treatment for their burns.Konosky knows it will be a long road to recovery, but she said she is just happy her dogs are alive.The two dogs still receiving treatment are expected to be released early next week.Konosky said she will be rebuilding the German Shepherd Rescue.The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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