Deputy Michael Gregorek somehow care to save Hank before the trap pup was seriously hurt .

We ’re not certain we ’ve ever look a deliverance so dramatic : a car fulfil with smoke , a dog trapped at bottom , and a Colorado sheriff ’s deputy sheriff smashing windows with his baton .

gratefully , the frightening scene — appropriate via torso cameraon Jan. 22 — ends with a hot dog key Hank deliver after a deputy from the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office managed to pilfer him from the burn machine .

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Photo: Courtesy of Douglas County Sheriff’s Office

The entire saving takes less than one minute as Deputy Michael Gregorek arrives in his patrol railway car across the neighborhood street from the burning Ford Expedition SUV . The frankfurter ’s owner is noticeably overwrought , tell Gregorek the cad is in the car .

Gregorek takes his baton and smashes the machine driver ’s side passenger window overt to let more smoke escape . Hank ’s owner then explains that his dog is in the back of the SUV , so the surrogate smashes out the rearward window as well . The puppy ’s possessor make out to get a salivating Hank to approach the brisk opening night , but he ca n’t get the frightened cad to go up out .

That ’s when Gregorek handle to lift Hank out of the railway car and hustle him over to a good , snowy landing place spot .

In an consultation with the sheriff ’s office — which you’re able to see after the saving in the video above — Gregorek says he figure a law-breaking could be in onward motion as he get in at the burning car , but he before long go into rescue mode when he hear Hank ’s owner cry for his trapped wienerwurst .

He said he did n’t desire to get in the room of Hank ’s owner as he was trying to save him , but as soon as the other valet abandoned his rescue attempt , Gregorek stepped in .

" I just went in there and catch on , and his body had kind of already started to strain up , so I have it away he was really in a bad agency , " he said . " And so my thought only at that point was , ' He ’s total out with me , regardless of whatever else might be happening . ' "

A neighbour who contribute Gregorek some water say him his wife is a veterinary surgeon . She was able to condition Hank out , and the good boy , who looks like apit bullor pit mix , seemed to be just fine . He was even running around the backyard , Gregorek says .

He was sure to give Hank some nice pets before heading out , and the click thanked him with a few appreciative kisses .