Cop saves dog that was trapped in burning car, watch heroic rescue

Not long ago, a cop in United State’s Colorado received all lot of love and support from social media users. For what reason?

The cop was able to rescue a dog that was trapped in a flaming car, Bodycam footage of the incident, was shared by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office on their official Facebook page.

In the clip, we see the recording as well as an interview of the officer, Douglas County Sheriff's Deputy Michael Gregorek. In the clip, Gregorek comes at the location after getting a call about a vehicle on fire.On arriving at the location, the deputy starts to shatter the window panes of the car using his baton.

At first, we see thick smoke rising from inside the car. We hear the owner of the car shouting in a panic about his dog that is trapped inside the burning car.

Finally, the rescue team rushed to the back windshield and shatters it. The owner calls his dog and we get to see Hank for the first time. However, when the owner tries to bring it out, he didn’t succeed because of the thick smoke coming out of the car. After trying a couple of times, the owner leaves the windshield and lets the cop save the dog. Gregorek then starts to pull Hank from the car.

Following the dog’s rescue from the car's rear, the cop let him run to a nearby pile of snow to cool itself.

The department shared the video and wrote in the caption, "The video speaks for itself. What a phenomenal ending to a scary situation for all."

So far, the post has been viewed over 4.2 billion times. It has been liked by more then 8,100 people and has collected 955 comments.

Watch the video here:

According to New York Post report, Grogorek said, "My thought at that point was, “He's coming out with me regardless of whatever else might be happening”".

Further, Grogorek added, "Hank comes to the back window, he's salivating, you can tell that he's in distress. [The] owner was trying to pull him out, not successfully...That's his baby, I am not going to get in his way while he's trying to rescue his baby but the second he opens up an opening for me I just went in there and grabbed on and his body had already started to tense up, so I knew he was really in a bad way."

Social media users appreciated the deputy's "wonderful" efforts. They also dubbed him "a true hero".

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