OSCODA COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN\/WGTU) — A Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officer is getting kudos for helping a homeowner and rescuing pets during a house fire in Oscoda County.<\/p>\n
Two weeks ago, a local conservation officer helped the Oscoda County Sheriff\u2019s Office respond to a house fire in Luzerne, the DNR said.<\/p>\n
According to authorities, the homeowner suffered a minor hand injury and was bleeding but wanted to continue searching the smoke-filled home for a missing cat. Body camera video shows the conservation officer arriving on scene and immediately securing the homeowner.<\/p>\n
The officer, who is also a first-aid instructor, stayed with the homeowner until medics arrived. The officer then helped secure the homeowner\u2019s two dogs, Zoci II and Caci II.<\/p>\n
DNR officials said the response highlights how conservation officers regularly partner with local, state and federal agencies and use their first-aid training to help protect public safety.<\/p>\n
The homeowner continues to recover from the effects of the fire, the DNR said. All of the pets \u2014 including cats Fizi and Mani \u2014 are alive and doing well.<\/p>\n
Several agencies assisted at the scene, including the Oscoda County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Luzerne Fire Department, Tri-Town Fire Department and Oscoda County Emergency Medical Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSCODA COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN\/WGTU) — A Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officer is getting kudos for helping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-380076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}