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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Welcome to Story Behind podcast. This is the

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Speaker 1: show for people who love hearing a good story and

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Speaker 1: who believe the world could use more positivity. We're the

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Speaker 1: team behind God Updates and God Too, and we hope

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Speaker 1: these weekly short stories will brighten your day.

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Speaker 2: Two year own Mini Golden Doodle Alert family of past

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Speaker 2: fire saving their lives Written by MICHAELA. Gordoni, read by

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Speaker 2: Julie Provost. A twelve pound pop was two families hero

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Speaker 2: after their Long Beached, New York homes suddenly went up

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Speaker 2: into flames while they were asleep on November ninth, twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five. The Mini Golden Doodles save the families in

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Speaker 2: the early hours of the morning before their smoke detectors

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Speaker 2: went off. The two year old pop named Chase insistently

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Speaker 2: barked when he sends smoke. His barks woke up three

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Speaker 2: members of two households, giving them enough time to escape.

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Speaker 2: The residents were woken by the dog barking and then

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Speaker 2: look out and saw the fire, said Rick Di Gamungo

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Speaker 2: of the Long Beach Fire Department. One person had to

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Speaker 2: escape through the roof to avoid getting hurt, but everyone

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Speaker 2: was safe thanks little Chase. Without his quick reaction, the

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Speaker 2: outcome would have been tragic. Assistant Chief Haddick Ray helped

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Speaker 2: save a couple in their eighties next door. I asked,

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Speaker 2: are they out? We saw the one guy had a walker,

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Speaker 2: so he grabbed him out, and then the police department

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Speaker 2: helped with the second victim who was inside that house.

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Speaker 2: Ray said. The families said they initially thought that they

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Speaker 2: as an intruder when they heard Chase barking. The cause

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Speaker 2: of the fire remains under investigation by the Nassau County

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Speaker 2: Fire Marshall's Office, the Nassau County Police Arson Bomb Squad,

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Speaker 2: and the Long Beach Police Department. The department said, Rick

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Speaker 2: says he's seen a lot of instances where people were

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Speaker 2: saved thanks to their pets or smoke detectors. The most

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Speaker 2: important thing is to make sure you have smoke detectors

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Speaker 2: working or a pet, He says. This is one of

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Speaker 2: those stories that shows that size doesn't matter. Chase may

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Speaker 2: be tiny, but his bark was loud, and thank goodness

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Speaker 2: for that. When floodwaters rose, one teen's courage became a

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Speaker 2: lifeline for strangers. It was written by Heather Wriggleman, read

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Speaker 2: by Jully probost. When floodwaters rose, one teen's courage became

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Speaker 2: a lifeline for strangers. The rain came down hard that

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Speaker 2: Sunday in Boca Raton, Florida, one of those sudden storms

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Speaker 2: that turned parking lots into rivers and streets into swirling tides.

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Speaker 2: Eighteen year old Thomas Rossano and his girlfriend had just

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Speaker 2: finished watching a movie at Mincerra Park when the thunder

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Speaker 2: rolled and the floodwaters began to rise. During the movie,

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Speaker 2: we just heard lightning pouring the whole movie, Thomas said,

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Speaker 2: and then on the way out, we're in a flood.

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Speaker 2: The storm had dalped more than eight inches of rain

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Speaker 2: in a short, fierce and unexpected downpour. Car sat stalled

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Speaker 2: like strainded boats, water climbing higher with every passing minute.

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Speaker 2: Most people stood frozen, unsure what today. But Thomas didn't

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Speaker 2: hesitate and went from car to car. He said, I

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Speaker 2: was making sure everyone was okay. He moved through knee

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Speaker 2: deep water, then waist deep, knocking on fog windows, helping

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Speaker 2: frighten strangers climb out of the water before it could

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Speaker 2: rise any higher. One by one, he pulled six, maybe

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Speaker 2: seven people to safety until someone shouted about an elderly

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Speaker 2: man still trapped in a car. The water had reached

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Speaker 2: the man's shoulders, his seep out jammed. Thomas and a

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Speaker 2: few by Sanders rushed over, yanking the door open and

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Speaker 2: the buckley strap that held him prisoner. He was actually

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Speaker 2: stuck in the car and we had to help him,

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Speaker 2: ount Thomas said. He was a little lost in the

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Speaker 2: whole situation, so we helped him. We just had to

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Speaker 2: get him to safety, make sure he was okay. They

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Speaker 2: guided the man through the murky water and into a

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Speaker 2: nearby restaurant, shaken but alive. Soon others joined Thomas. A

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Speaker 2: ripple of courage spread through that flooded parking lot, as

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Speaker 2: strangers waded in to help one another, passing out towels,

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Speaker 2: studying trembling hands, and checking on neighbors they'd never met. Compassion,

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Speaker 2: the kind that still makes the world turned toward hope,

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Speaker 2: was rising higher than the floodwaters. They were just very thankful,

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Speaker 2: Thomas said. They kept telling me how lucky they were

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Speaker 2: to have me there. Later, when the water finally began

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Speaker 2: to recede, Thomas's parents shared a videother son being interviewed.

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Speaker 2: The caption read simply mom and dad are so proud

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Speaker 2: of you. But maybe that's a miracle in this story,

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Speaker 2: not just one young man's bravery, but how one act

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Speaker 2: of courage can awaken the good in others. In a

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Speaker 2: world that feels divided, God still stirs hearts to step

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Speaker 2: into the storm, toy through chaos, and carry one another

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Speaker 2: to safety. Because love, like floodwater, moves fast, but unlike

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Speaker 2: the flood, it leaves life instead of loss in its wake.

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Speaker 2: When you pass through the waters, I will be with you.

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Speaker 2: Isaiah forty three to two.

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