While out just doing his job on Valentine's Day, one deliveryman unexpectedly gained a new title, hero.

As Douglas Haines, a former fire captain and deliveryman at Ann's Flower Shop in Auburn, Maine, made his rounds on Feb. 14, he came upon one house where no one was home, spotted smoke, and called 911.

According to reports by the Sun Journal, firefighters arrived soon after, were able to save an unconscious dog and contain the fire to only two rooms in the house.

Officials reported that because there was no one home and the house was at the end of a dead end street, if it wasn't for Haines calling the fire in, the fire might have been missed.

The dog, Kasey, a 10-year-old lab mix is recovering at a local Veterinary Hospital after receiving oxygen on-scene, and as for the flowers that were supposed to be delivered that morning, Haines took them back to the shop. "I figured she had bigger things to worry about than flowers and balloons," Haines told the paper.

--Kori Kamradt
kkamradt@safnow.org

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