On the video above from Frog4System you hear the videographer say, “Some idiot went in there to get that dog. He goes, ‘I do this for a living.'”
That “idiot” who does “this for a living” is Tim Tawater, a 20-year veteran of the Nashville Fire Department. Tawater was already late for his daughter’s birthday party on Saturday when he saw smoke.
Tawater followed that smoke to a home in White House, Tennessee and began a search. It turned out no one was home except the dog … an 85-pound dog.
“There were no people inside, which was a good thing. I came back out and noticed the dog standing at the door.”
When Tawater tried to approach the dog, it ran back in the house, he said.
“If someone has a dog that big in the house, it means that dog is family,” he said, adding that the dog, a bouvier des Flandres, weighed roughly 85 pounds.
“I couldn’t do anything about the property, but I could save that dog. I thought it was worth a chance,” he said. “I’m a strong believer in the fact that God has called me to do this, and he’s going to protect me until I’m done.”
