A Marietta man who safely got out of his burning home early Tuesday said he owes his life to a 3 ½ -year-old boxer that he called the “best dog in the world,” but is grieving that he was unable to save the dog from the flames.
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Firefighters later brought Duncan’s remains out of the house and buried them in the yard, Dunn said.
“They weren’t going to let me watch, but I refused that,” a tearful Dunn recounted several hours later. “I said, ‘that’s my dog and I want to say the final goodbye.’”
Dunn said Duncan had been badly burned in the inferno.
“You wouldn’t recognize him, but I still leaned down, gave him a hug and gave him a kiss, and four or five of the fire department guys started crying, but I wasn’t going to let my boy go out like that,” Dunn said. “That’s my boy.”
