As he wiped the condensation from his front window, Gorski saw something move across the street. <\/p>\n
An elderly man dressed in a lightly colored winter jacket had fallen in a snow bank and couldn’t get up. <\/p>\n
“When I first looked outside I couldn’t see anything. His jacket kind of blended in with the snow,” Gorski said. <\/p>\n
Gorski went out to see what happened, and a neighbor called 911. When Gorski reached the man, he noticed he had cut his face in the ice. Gorski stayed and talked with the man until the ambulance arrived. <\/p>\n
Like so many other dogs, Commander is prone to bark a bit when he sees a squirrel or rabbit. But as soon as it’s gone, he stops. <\/p>\n
Gorski said he thinks somehow Commander sensed the man was in trouble and barking incessantly was a way of alerting his family to it. <\/p>\n
An ambulance arrived a short time later to take the man to a hospital. Privacy laws prevent fire or police officials from disclosing information about such calls. But village officials said they believe the man is at home and doing well. <\/p>\n
Commander is Bill’s son Randy’s dog. Commander still gets rambunctious when people visit the house, and he often can’t sit still on command. But the family is proud he was able to help someone in need. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Commander, a 10-month-old German shepherd who lives in Midlothian, still is full of puppy exuberance and energy. But one recent morning, when Commander’s owner, Bill Gorski, let him out in the back yard, the dog went toward the front of the gate facing the street and would not stop barking. Gorski said he looked out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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