Engaged couple Quinn Demarest and Monica Molina were sound asleep in their first-floor apartment when their beloved dog came into the bedroom to wake them up and alert them to the inferno.
“He woke us up, I helped my fiancée out,” Demarest told The Post while recovering from the blaze.
But the couple, thanks to Rikku, fled to the hallway, pulled an alarm and started knocking on doors to alert neighbors the apartment building was filling with smoke and it was time to get out.
“[Rikku] let us knock on the doors and set off the alarm that saved everyone,” Demarest said.
Once Molina was safely out of the building, Demarest went back for Rikku, but it was too late.
https://nypost.com/2019/03/01/hero-dog-died-saving-upper-west-side-couple-from-fire/
