For Six Hours We Dug Toward a Trapped Dog’s Bark until..

The entire rescue site froze.

Nobody breathed.

Nobody spoke.

Then we started digging faster than we had all day.

Because we knew.

After six exhausting hours, we were finally about to discover what that loyal dog had spent every ounce of its remaining strength protecting.

And when we finally broke through into the void beneath the rubble…

None of us were prepared for what we found waiting there.