(FOX NEWS) - One German shepherd puppy has found a forever home with a Utah firefighter who rescued him from the Mendocino Complex wildfire in California.
On August 28, KTVU reported that Draper City Fire Department member Patrick Cullen had been in Mendocino County to battle the massive blaze in August when he crossed paths with the 2-year-old pup, in the middle of the night.
"I was running the pump at the engine. Kind of hear something or feel something and all you see is a few eyes and I thought, oh, me and a lion mountain. This will be fun," Cullen recalled.
Bounding out of the darkness, instead, came a stray dog.
The Draper City firefighters dubbed the dog "Mendo" after the Mendocino Complex blaze they were battling, and the name stuck. It became too dangerous for the crew to keep Mendo as they fought the fire, so they gave the dog to the Mendocino Animal Shelter, KTVU reports.
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