Heroic dog crosses busy street to get owners emergency help in Pittsburgh

Pit bull faced traffic and led a stranger to a ‘secluded’ tent encampment where a man and woman were unconscious

A dog reportedly braved heavy traffic to catch a stranger’s attention and get life-saving emergency help to the animal’s two owners after they became unresponsive in a tent encampment in Pittsburgh recently, earning the canine feting as a hero.

As local resident Gary Thynes put it both in a social media post and an interview with the Pittsburgh television station WTAE, he was playing with his dog at a park on the evening of 29 July when a pit bull approached barking and evidently trying to get someone’s attention.