I had a mental note to stop by my vet's Clinic on the way home and pick up the special dog food that my standard poodles, Mike and Misha eat, and in horror I witnessed a hubub for a block before and a block after of every fire truck and news station from the area. My heart just sank and all I could do was give a silent prayer for the personnel and the animals at the Edgewater Animal Hospital and Dr. Castro.
Located at 2305 S Ridgewood Ave, in Edgewater Florida this animal hospital is a wonderful facility of healing. The personnel is amazing in their love and dedication to their animal patients. My biggest fear when I saw the trucks was for the personnell, that someone would get hurt trying to save the animals because I knew that none of them would leave their patients behind.
Four Fire Departments in total respond! God Bless them all:)
As it turned out, the Edgewater Fire Chief Steve Cousins was on his way home when the call came in at 5:05 p.m.. But what I find so wonderful and amazing is that of course Edgewater Fire Department responded but so did New Smyrna Fire Department and Port Orange Fire Department and Volusia County Fire Services!
Neighbors, Firemen and of course the personnel and City and County Animal Control trucks acted as temporary housing for the animals as everyone evacuated the patients. Even the birds and the opossum made it out safely. Thirty plus patients were evacuated safely.
Bricks & Morter can be replaced...but the tea cup Chihuahua is missing!
This is a bittersweet story of community action and cooperation because front desk Manager, Brandy Dean's 9 week old tea cup Chihuahua was evacuated from the building and handed to a 20 year old female who vanished, just walked off with the puppy. If you have any information regarding this puppy, please do the right thing and contact the Edgewater Police Department. If you are the person who took this puppy....please do the right thing and return her.
The inferno fire began from a careless cigarette butt igniting some trees north of the building. Fortunately a patient loading her animals in her car saw the fire and went back in to the building to alert Dr. Castro and to report the fire. Because of the close proximity of a mobile home park next door, the fire department wisely called in for added help and because these first responders came we have such good results to report.
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