Andrea Rosebrock 
For more than a week a stray female mix dog, heavily pregnant, had been trapped on the second floor of an abandoned building in St. Louis, MO. Stray Rescue of St. Louis was trying to rescue the scared little girl but she perched herself on the sill of a second story window. Worried that she was going to jump, a certain death sentence, director Randy Grim looked for help. Spotting a fire engine, he flagged it down.
Fire Engine Company #9 offered their able bodied assistance in rescuing the scared dog and delivered her to Stray Rescue where she is now safe and sound and has been named E9 in honor of her valiant rescuers!
You can watch the amazing rescue below. It was definitely touch and go at times but our heroes prevailed! Now E9 will be able to have her babies in a safe place, warm and sheltered and the staff at Stray Rescue will make sure they are cared for and adopted into wonderful loving homes as I am sure E9 will be as well when she’s ready to become a part of a family. Living on the streets is a tough life for anyone but for a pregnant dog, trapped and abandoned, it must have been hell. Now she’s going to find out what life can and should be!
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My heart was all over the place for this story!! It broke to think of her scared and alone in that nasty old building, it stopped while watching her perched on that windowsill, and melted with happiness watching that little princess prance around in the grass, without care for the rain, just thrilled to be back on solid ground. She will be one of the lucky ones who will live out her days knowing the love she should have had all along!!! Thanks for sharing this, Deanna!!!
It’s stories like this that make you say, this is what it’s all about! So many people no doubt just walked by and ignored this little girl, if they even saw her, but not rescuers! This is what they do every day and to the fire company that went out of their way, they could have easily just gone about their way, not tied up their time and resources but heroes to the heart, they did what had to be done. Yes, this is one lucky little girl and like you, even though I knew she was going to be safe, I watched the video and cringed and held my breath and grinned like a silly kid watching her in the end.
D.
I did the grinning at the end thing too. : ) Lovely video. I truly LOVE firemen.
D., you are on a roll with two good endings so far! I hope E9 will finally receive the love and comforts of a home that she deserves.
Kudos to all involved in her rescue. There are good people out there – far and few, but they are there.
I love Stray Rescue!!! Thanks to all of you who do such wonderful things every day to help defenseless animals.
wow….how sad then how happy. keeping E9 in my thoughts n prayers…good luck, sweet girl…..
What an amazing rescue! Like ya’ll, my heart was literally skipping beats, though I knew she was going to be ok. These are true heros. At one point when her back toes were barely on the ledge, it looked that was going to be it for her. God bless our heros who do this every day to help the helpless babies out there. She was one happy girl to be free of that awful building!
Randy Grim and Stray Rescue are amazing. Just reading his story and how he felt called to do this is truly moving and heartwarming. It takes people with heart, empathy and desire to make the world a better place to take action when they see action needs to be taken. Thanks so much for getting this out to all of us D. Bless Randy and all those firefighters who went the extra mile a took their duties to heart. What a great ending.
I just love a story like this with a happy ending, good on Stray Rescue and those firemen for saving her, hopefully someone will adopt her and her puppies and they will all go to loving homes!
I think this is great, but I am curious about one thing- how in the heck did she end up trapped in that building in the first place? Did someone put her in there, or did she climb up inside and subsequently became too scared to climb back down? Kudos to the fire department for rescuing her. Burned-out buildings are very dangerous places.
That was great.
Im sitting here clapping all by myself lol….awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
awesome job by fire department guys!!!
now that is the kind of story I like to hear. I wonder how E9 got trapped in that building. I am just glad they didn’t decide to demolish it with her in it. She’s a beautiful dog and I bet someone put her there because she got pregnant. I hope she is micro-chipped. I wish nothing but the best for her and her puppies. Kudos to the fire dept. for the rescue.
ty company 9, and what a great name for this baby, I hope Mommy and Babes all find loving homes!
such a great story, ty for the uplift, Deanna!
so sorry, thank you also to Stray Rescue of St. Louis!
What a wonderful story and with the hope of a better future for the poor dog who was rescued. it still makes my heart sing when dogs are rescued. However there is something else that need our attention namely all the strays who never get that second chance.This Christmas lots of puppies and kittens were under the tree because despite our warnings and that of others some people just don´t get it. A dog is for life not just for christmas. How manny of those puppies and kittens are going to end up as strays or worse deathrow at some shelter who can hardly cope because of a rising number of dogs being brought in daily. Spay neuter programs are vital. Stop petshops from selling live animals. If there is a demand there will be those willing to make a profitt of the good intentions newspaper ads free to good home is heartbreaking. It is my simpel wish that people would adopt from a rescue or shelter instead of the doggie in the window then those poor dogs might stand a chance.