This photograph shows a red Doberman kissing an exhausted fireman. He had just saved her from a fire in her house, rescuing her by carrying her out of the house into her front yard, while he continued to fight the fire. She is pregnant. The firefighter was afraid of her at first, because he had never been around a Doberman before. When he finally got done putting the fire out, he sat down to catch his breath and rest. A photographer from the Charlotte, North Carolina newspaper, “The Observer,” noticed this red Doberman in the distance looking at the fireman. He saw her walking straight toward the fireman and wondered what she was going to do. As he raised his camera, she came up to the tired man who had saved her life and the lives of her babies, and kissed him, when the photographer snapped this shot.
The true story:
During the house fire, there was already one dog outside in the yard and another one ran out of the house on its own. It was at the moment that the firefighter knelt down and removed his mask, that Cinnamon walked over and licked him at the most opportune timing for photographer Patrick Schneider. The fireman didn’t really rescue the dog in some dramatic fashion like we may imagine. But regardless of the exact details of the event, it’s still a beautiful moment between a human and a canine.
A heart-warming moment is frozen in time and preserved forever.
Jeff Clark works for the Charlotte Fire Department. Pregnant Cinnamon did give birth to five puppies and eventually passed away in 2005. Thanks, Cinnamon and Jeff for this warm fuzzy moment, and Patrick for the great shot.
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