Hero Pit Bull ‘sniffs out danger,’, saves family by warning police about GAS LEAK!

On Wednesday afternoon around 3:45 p.m., officials with the Tuckahoe Police Department received a call about a barking dog on the loose on Fairview Avenue.

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When they eventually managed to return Sadie to her home, officers noticed the sliding door in the backyard was open. Then, after walking the perimeter of the house, they “smelled an odor of gas coming from an open basement window,” the police department wrote on Facebook.

Though it first appeared that “Sadie was being a bad girl,” the police department said, officials with the Eastchester Fire Department and Con Edison later determined there was a gas leak coming from the basement.

“Did Sadie sense danger? Did she smell the gas in the house, and force her way outside to the street to draw attention?” the police department questioned.

“Sadie - Great work sniffing out danger and getting help! If we are ever in need of a K9, we will put you at the top of our list!” it added.

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Here’s more from ABC 7 in New York:

A dog from Westchester County is being hailed as a hero after she saved the lives of her family.

The pit bull, named Sadie, was found roaming a Tuckahoe yard Wednesday afternoon, barking incessantly.

Police received a call at 3:45 p.m. about a loose, barking dog and responded to the home.

“The dog then ran and took the officers through several streets, and then lead them back to the dog’s residence into the backyard,” police Lieutenant Lawrence Rotta said.

Arriving officers noticed the home’s sliding glass door was open, and the fence was broken.

As police walked the perimeter of the house, they discovered a gas odor coming from an open basement window.

Eastchester Fire Department and Con Edison responded to the scene and confirmed there was a gas leak coming from the basement.

“The dog saved the house from a potential gas explosion and gas leak,” Rotta said.

Further inspection revealed claw marks and blood on the back of the door, leading the family to believe Sadie sensed there was danger and jumped into action.

“She went from being in time out to being my girl,” owner Serena Costello said. “It looks like she was trying to get out this window…She was determined to get out.”

Costello credits Sadie for saving her life and the life of her 4-year-old daughter.

Somehow, Sadie chewed and dug out a wooden blocker keeping the sliding door shut and managed to run out into the backyard. Costello says in 11 years, Sadie has never once run out of the house.

“This is my contraption I built so she never got out, which always worked since I been here,” Costello said. “But she nestled through here and escaped through the fence.”

Costello was at work at the time, and a friend called her to let her know that police, firefighters and utility workers were at her home. If not for Sadie, she fears she and her daughter could have come home to a catastrophe in the making.

“She is a hero,” she said. “She is our hero. It’s just so out of character for her to do. She saved our lives. Yeah. Emotional.”

But before the story ends, there was one other small police matter to resolve.

“They had to write me a summons, which they didn’t want to, but I guess it’s the law for having an unleashed dog in the area,” Costello said. “But one of the police officers, I guess after ConEd said that (it) was a gas leak, took the summons and ripped it up.”

What a great story! And for it to be a pit bull just makes it even better considering the bad reputation they’ve gotten over the years.

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The fact that Sadie managed to get the cops attention and then lead them back to the gassy home is just something that almost sounds unbelievable. What a great dog!