Atlanta officers finally had to cut off the hot dog ’s neckband to free the puppy from the inferno .

Body - camera footage from some Atlanta police officers over the weekend showed an intense , dangerous rescue of a frankfurter who was tied to a leash near a rag gondola fire .

In the nearly 4 - minute television taken other Sunday morning , the military officer surmount fencing and hurriedly take the air behind a firm to get to the firedog , who was attach to a metallic element lede that was stretched as far as it could get from the fervor , which was blazing , crackling , and popping .

" Come here , buddy , " one authority pronounce . " It ’s OK , it ’s OK , " another summate .

The dog-iron , who looks to be some form of pit bull intermixture , was super calm as the policeman worked and worked to try and release the pup from the tie - out . They tried that for about a second ( which feels like a lifetime see the flames compound ) before they decided to trim down the hound ’s collar alternatively .

That shape , and one of the officers scooped up the dog and campaign off , yelling , " I got him ! " A few consequence after — and further away from the fire — the pup gets free and one of the officers has to coax him back to him .

" I was n’t gon na allow you go down like that , " the officeholder tells the blackguard , who remarkably is still pretty unagitated . ( At that point , the very ripe doggy was receiving many pets from the deliver ship’s officer . )

The whelp ’s composure did n’t go unnoticed by the Atlanta Police Department .

" We would also like to bring up that we are majestic of the dog , who maintain his calmness and showed bravery throughout this trial by ordeal allow the officers to free him , " the department said , according to theAtlanta Journal - Constitution . " We give him a 12/10 . He ’s a honorable boy . "

It ’s not unmortgaged why the dog was tie up outdoors at nighttime , and it ’s potential they were merely out for a tipsy break when the unthinkable happen . But just to be on the safe side , we advocate always making sure you know where your dogs are at all prison term — even better if you could keep them inwardly with you .