Skunk sets off chain of events that save woman's life


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OKLAHOMA CITY — What started as a dog's misfortune ended in a life-saving act of heroism in Oklahoma City early Sunday morning.

"Cooper" the dog's bathroom break had impeccable timing.

He went out around 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning and that's when an unusual chain of events took off.

"There was a skunk out there. I never saw him but he spewed the dog real good, got me a little bit," explains Frank Kirk, Cooper's owner.

Kirk and his son, Canton Bond, walked outside in the pitch black and pouring rain to bathe Cooper and get rid of that awful stench.

As they got outside, they saw that their neighbor's house was on fire.


It's the skunk that saved the day but that's probably not very accurate. Frank was the one that saved the day.

–Greg King


Kirk said, "The big driveway door collapsed down on the ground. It was, like, half of it was on fire."

Flames had also engulfed the front door, forcing the two men to run through the thick smoke to the back.

The two sprang into action and managed to get their elderly neighbor to the back door and guide her out to the curb.

Kirk said, "If the skunk hadn't been there and sprayed the dog, we wouldn't have been out in the back cleaning the dog."

He says his elderly neighbor lost her dog in the fire but thing's could've been much worse had they not intervened.

"Frank's the hero," said Kirk's neighbor Greg King. "It's the skunk that saved the day but that's probably not very accurate. Frank was the one that saved the day."

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