Officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department are being hailed as heroes after rescuing a mother dog and her puppy from the back seat of a hot car earlier this month.

Although the car was parked in an enclosed parking garage, the temperature outside was nearly 96 degrees. A kind guard noticed the dogs in distress and called the police right away.

The car was parked in a lot for the Wild Wild West Gambling Hall — and the dogs’ owner was presumably inside gambling.

When officers arrived, they saw the two dogs inside the car struggling for breath and panting. A sunroof and the rear windows were left slightly open, but there was no circulation in the dry, stale air.

Since the dogs were in the back seat, one of the quick-thinking officers decided to smash in the front passenger side window in order to safely retrieve them. Body camera footage shows the tired and panting dogs in another officer’s arms.

One of the dogs couldn’t stop wagging her tail when she realized she’d finally been saved. After the daring rescue, the dogs were ushered by patrol car to a local veterinary office where they received care. Luckily, both dogs were unharmed in the incident.

“Recently, our officers have been forced to break vehicle windows to save dogs in distress,” the department posted on Facebook. “The Las Vegas heat is lethal and the weather is too hot to leave animals and pets in cars. In two unrelated cases, we saved the lives of three poor puppers and arrested one owner.”

In Nevada, it is a misdemeanor to leave an animal unattended inside a car “if conditions, including, without limitation, extreme heat or cold, present a significant risk to the health and safety of the pet.”

Across the country, 31 states have similar laws, which vary in who can rescue the animals. Fifteen states let anyone rescue an animal in distress, while in Nevada, only public safety officers and animal control officers can do it on private property.

While it’s not clear whether the owner of the dogs was arrested, many on social media called for the dogs to be taken away.

“Oh my goodness — thank you so much Metro,” one concerned person wrote. “You were the chosen angels that day to rescue those babies. Please, please don’t let them go back to that horrible person.”

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Cats are sometimes said to have “nine lives,” due to their ability to always land on their feet. But the same can be said about one dog, who bravely escaped from a burning home by leaping out the window from the second floor.

According to NBC Philadelphia, a man named Justin Steinmetz spotted a smoke-filled home in Fleetwood, Berks County while driving to work. The home had no people inside — the adults were at work and the kids were at school — and Justin frantically tried to get help.

He got another driver to call 911 and started trying to put the fire out with a hose, to no avail. Firefighters soon arrived to combat the flames.

But the situation took a dramatic turn after the family’s dog, Charlie, appeared in the home’s second-story window, desperately trying to escape.

The firefighters coaxed Charlie into jumping out the window, the only way to safety. In a dramatic moment captured on video by Justin, the dog makes a brave leap. While he had been charred by the fire, he made it out alive.

“He had a mouth full of smoke, lungs full of smoke, and he jumped to safety,” Justin told NBC. “He jumped when he needed to, that’s what matters.”

The family’s other dog, and their two cats, were also found on the scene after managing to escape the home.

While it’s great the pets survived, the homeowners, identified as the Stump family, “lost everything” in the fire. A GoFundMe campaign was set up to help them get back on their feet after losing their home.

“We are very grateful they are ok, but are painfully aware that their lives will be significantly impacted as a result of the devastating fire to their home today,” the site reads. The page has raised $40,000 for the family.

But Justin, who runs a farm and says he will be lending the family some baby goats for “goat therapy,” says the pets’ survival is a major silver lining.

“I feel blessed that the animals got out alive, that’s the big thing,” he told NBC.

What a dramatic escape from this burning home! We’re so glad Charlie is safe now, and are sending this family our thoughts and prayers as they recover from this devastating fire.

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