‘All you need are the people you love’: MacDowall couple lose home in fire
A MacDowall, Sask. couple said losing their uninsured home in a fire Tuesday night showed them what’s really important – the people they love.
Tony Loehndorf said when he and his partner Victoria Muskaluk came home from work to find smoke pouring out of their home, the first thing he thought of was Odin, his Great Dane.
“My dog’s in there, and all I could see is smoke before I entered the house,” Loehndorf told paNOW. “We got the dog out; he was okay. He was still conscious, luckily, because that just scared me more than anything.”
After getting Odin to safety, Loehndorf said he shut off the circuit breakers and began a single-handed effort to fight the fire with pails of water. The fire, Loehndorf said, was raging within the walls and ceiling of the war-era home, and when he went upstairs the smoke was overpowering.