‘He gave him a nip’: Safety Harbor family’s dog saves son from house fire

Written on 01/03/2024
Georgia McCarthur, News Channel 8


 Safety Harbor family’s pet saved them from a house fire on New Year’s Eve.

A single mom, whose home was destroyed in a house fire, found comfort in an unlikely hero, her loyal dog, Macho. Thanks to Macho, her son was able to escape just in the nick of time.

“He just kept going at him and then he just gave him a nip, a couple of them and wake him up. And Griffin said, ‘What’s happening?’. And as soon as he turned around, there was just no doubt he had to go. He had to go quickly,” the boy’s mother, Nicole Evans, said.

Evans was out of town when she got the call her house was in flames on Sunday. The family’s dog realized something wasn’t right, so he woke up her teenage son Griffin, to alert him about the fire.

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Photo credit - Safety Harbor Fire Department