The dog in the picture saved the life of his companion from death, not in an accident or a fire but in a strange second way.
Maureen Burns of Rigby in Britain has a dog of a mixed breed named Max. Maureen noticed that Max was behaving strangely,getting close to her mouth, smell her breathe and then point to her right breast.
Morin was surprised by the behavior of the dog and decided to examine herself at home to discover the presence of a small tumor in her right breast, then went to a hospital, but the MRI didn't show any abnormality because of the small size of the tumor.
Later, Maureen undergo a surgery to take a sample and found that she had a malignant tumor in her breast that made her undergo surgery to remove the tumor and then radiation therapy until she was fully healed.
And all because of dog Max.
By the way: trained dogs can also smell prostate cancer in men.