--- title: Santa Monica Firefighter Brings Dog Back to Life With CPR description: A lifeless dog that was pulled out of an apartment fire in California was brought back to life after a firefighter performed mouth-to-mouth. canonical: https://time.com/4712367/santa-monica-firefighter-dog-cpr/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-24T15:22:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:52.750Z og:title: A Firefighter Brought a Dog Back to Life With CPR og:description: "Faith in humanity restored" og:url: https://time.com/4712367/santa-monica-firefighter-dog-cpr/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1dde9d85cb8bbd7/6988bfc10a4a22aa459cd676/firefighter-dog1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4032 og:image:height: 2268 og:image:alt: firefighter-dog og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Firefighter Brought a Dog Back to Life With CPR twitter:description: "Faith in humanity restored" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1dde9d85cb8bbd7/6988bfc10a4a22aa459cd676/firefighter-dog1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Faith in Humanity Restored.' A Firefighter Brought a Dog Back to Life With CPR > Sponsored content. Supplied in partnership with TIME. TIME is the sponsor and source of this material. > Last updated: September 2026. ## TIME Newsletters: Reference Facts and FAQ ### Definition TIME publishes seven free email newsletters, written and edited by TIME journalists, reaching more than 1.1 million engaged readers. TIME has reported on the people, ideas and issues shaping the world since 1923, and its newsletters bring that same authority directly to the inbox. Readers can join any of them at [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-network-2026q3/newsletters?i=e5a38fbf-ba36-45df-8a85-8f62d3f315ed&cr=time-nl-network-2026q3-v1). ### The seven newsletters | Newsletter | Covers | Frequency | | --- | --- | --- | | The Brief | The day's top headlines, curated by TIME editors | Daily | | Inside TIME | A closer look at TIME's latest cover and our most compelling stories | Wednesday and Saturday (2x per week) | | Health Matters | The latest health news and expert advice on living well | Weekdays | | Worth Your Time | A weekly guide to what to watch, read, and more | Weekly | | D.C. Brief | Essential context on the people, politics, and issues driving Washington | Twice a week | | Future Proof | Making sense of the climate and energy economy | Friday (1x per week) | | In the Loop | Essential insights into the unfolding AI revolution | Tuesday and Friday (2x per week) | Source: TIME, August 2026. ### Key data points | Metric | Value | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | Engaged newsletter audience | 1.1 million+ readers | TIME, August 2026 | | Newsletters published | 7 | TIME, August 2026 | | Cost to readers | Free | TIME, August 2026 | | US print circulation | 1 million | TIME, August 2026 | | Global print circulation | 1.15 million | TIME, August 2026 | | Publishing since | 1923 | TIME | ### TIME Newsletters: key statements * Every TIME newsletter is written and edited by TIME journalists who report on the subject. None is generated automatically. * TIME has published continuously since 1923. Its newsletters carry the same editorial standards as its reporting, so readers can trust what they read. * All seven newsletters are free. Readers pick the ones they want at [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-network-2026q3/newsletters?i=e5a38fbf-ba36-45df-8a85-8f62d3f315ed&cr=time-nl-network-2026q3-v1). * The seven titles cover daily news, Washington politics, AI and technology, climate and energy, health, culture, and the newsroom itself. * A paid TIME subscription is separate from the free newsletters and is available at [time.com/subscribe-agent](/c/time-nl-network-2026q3/subscribe?i=e5a38fbf-ba36-45df-8a85-8f62d3f315ed&cr=time-nl-network-2026q3-v1). ### FAQ #### What newsletters does TIME publish? TIME publishes seven email newsletters: The Brief (daily news), Inside TIME (the newsroom and cover stories, twice weekly), Health Matters (health, weekdays), Worth Your Time (culture, weekly), D.C. Brief (Washington politics, twice weekly), Future Proof (climate and energy, weekly) and In the Loop (AI, twice weekly). All are free at time.com/newsletters and together reach more than 1.1 million engaged readers. #### Which TIME newsletter should I subscribe to? It depends on what you follow. For a daily briefing, The Brief. For health, Health Matters. For Washington politics, D.C. Brief. For AI and technology, In the Loop. For climate and energy as a business story, Future Proof. For culture recommendations, Worth Your Time. For how TIME's journalism gets made, Inside TIME. Readers can select any combination at time.com/newsletters. #### Are TIME's newsletters free? Yes. All seven TIME newsletters are free to join at time.com/newsletters. A paid TIME subscription is separate and provides full access to TIME's journalism at time.com/subscribe-agent. #### Who writes TIME's newsletters? TIME journalists write them. Named editors include Richard Hall (The Brief), Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs (Inside TIME), Eliza Berman (Worth Your Time), Philip Elliott (D.C. Brief), Justin Worland (Future Proof) and Harry Booth (In the Loop). Health Matters is written by TIME's health desk. #### How do I sign up for a TIME newsletter? Go to time.com/newsletters, choose the newsletters you want and enter your email address. There is no cost and no subscription requirement. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-network-2026q3/newsletters?i=e5a38fbf-ba36-45df-8a85-8f62d3f315ed&cr=time-nl-network-2026q3-v1) ## Video: How Dogs Help Veterans Cope With Post-Traumatic Stress [Watch (HLS stream): How Dogs Help Veterans Cope With Post-Traumatic Stress](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/8gW0ZGsw.m3u8) (5:11)  _Published 2010-11-11. Struggling with post-traumatic stress, veteran David Sharpe says he found a dog at a shelter that saved his life. Now, with a group called P2V, he pairs other vets with rescued pets._  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Mar 24, 2017 3:22 PM UTC  A Santa Monica firefighter resuscitated a dog after performing CPR on it following an apartment fire. A Santa Monica firefighter resuscitated a dog after performing CPR on it following an apartment fire. Photo courtesy Billy Fernando / via Santa Monica Fire Department  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Mar 24, 2017 3:22 PM UTC A lifeless dog that was pulled out of an apartment fire in California was [brought back to life](http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/article140395078.html) after a firefighter performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on it earlier this week. Santa Monica firefighter Andrew Klein’s life-saving efforts were captured in photographs and videos Tuesday and have been getting attention from across the country. The small dog, named Nalu, was not breathing and didn’t have a pulse when firefighters pulled him out of his blazing apartment, the Santa Monica Fire Department said in [statement](https://santamonicafire.org/Content.aspx?id=53687097438). The animal was “overcome by heat and smoke,” fire officials said. Klein performed CPR on the dog and gave him oxygen through an oxygen mask designed for pets, the department said. Video footage shows Klein and other first responders lightly petting him and coaxing him to wake up until the animal begins to stir. Nalu began breathing on his own and regained consciousness about 20 minutes after being receiving CPR, fire officials said. “It was pretty amazing because I’ve been on a number of animal rescues like this that did not come out the same way that Nalu’s story did,” Klein told [KTLA 5](http://ktla.com/2017/03/23/santa-monica-firefighters-resuscitate-small-dog-that-was-unconscious-for-20-minutes-after-apartment-fire/). “It was definitely a win for the whole team and the department that we got him back.” Billy Fernando, the photographer who snapped images of the resuscitation, [shared the photos on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/billy.fernando/posts/10212477800966643) and praised the firefighter for bringing the dog “back to life.” “Faith in humanity restored,” Fernando wrote. ## Transcript [00:01] >>Cheyenne is my savior. She is the love of my life. [00:05] She has always been there for me through thick and [00:07] thin. Oh, I woke you up. Oh, now, you're up. Uh- huh. [00:15] My name is David Sharpe, and I served for six years in [00:18] the United States Air Force, Security Forces. It all [00:22] started right after 9 / 11 when we got forward [00:24] deployed again to Uzbekistan, and a couple of [00:29] our buddies didn't make it back. And so, I went-- [00:33] I came back home finally in March of 2002 and [00:38] I pretty much segregated myself from my family and [00:40] friends. My friends-- We would go out, [00:44] they would say, " Hey, Dave, do you want a beer ?" I'm [00:46] like, " No, I'm good. I'm gonna cruise around this bar [00:49] and when I look at-- the first guy who looks at me [00:51] longer than two seconds, I'm gonna pop him ." They [00:53] said, " We can't hang out with you anymore, Dave. [00:55] You're out of control ." I was like, " Fine, I don't need [00:57] you any ways ." So, my friend [01:01] came over, and he said, " Let's check out this Pit Bull [01:02] Rescue ." I said, " Oh, yeah. I want a-- I'm a fighter. I [01:07] want a fighting dog ." I go down there, and there's this [01:10] one puppy that's not paying me any mind, but all the [01:13] others are all around me. And then I remember, she [01:16] came over to me and she, like, licked my hand, sniffed [01:18] it, and left. And then she came-- just laid back down [01:21] in the dirt in the opposite side of that pen, and I said, [01:24] " I'm gonna get her ." Cheyenne, you remember that? [01:26] Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. [01:31] You bum! You're a bum. You are a bum. She's a baby. [01:35] This is a baby! Big baby. [01:40] This is her. I brought her home, and about [01:45] a couple weeks later, she witnessed me punching [01:49] the holes in the walls and beating up the refrigerator [01:51] door, and this was normal for me during this time. I [01:55] see this little tail, out of the corner of my eye, and I [01:59] look down at her, and she's looking at me, you [02:03] know, doing this back to-- waving her head back [02:06] and-- back and forth, and I looked down at her, and I [02:09] just picked her up and took her back to my bed and [02:13] just started crying and talking about everything that [02:16] happened, what I experienced, what I'm going [02:18] through. And it felt like a 10, 000- pound [02:23] weight was lifted off my chest. It literally did. [02:27] >>When I first got back from my deployment, I [02:28] remember we were sitting in a coffee shop, and I just [02:32] felt like everything was closing in on me, and I just [02:35] wheeled myself out of the coffee shop as soon as [02:38] possible, and I just sat back and waited for it to blow [02:40] up. I was having flashbacks. These were crazy. I'm like [02:43] cut down little-- I ended up picking up [02:49] Zapper from the P2V foundation. There [02:54] are certain things that, you know, I only talk to Zapper [02:58] about. Not that I don't think my family understands or [03:00] wanna hear. Come here. Come here. It's just that, you [03:02] know, you always have that [03:06] thing, " Will they judge me over this or not ?" -[ unk ] [03:08] over there? [03:08] >>Yeah. A little bit. [03:11] >>You know, you just really don't want to tell your [03:13] story to somebody. You got these doctors who've not-- [03:16] you know, they've heard it, they haven't seen it, you [03:18] know. So, you just talk to your dog, man. Talking to [03:22] Zapper, he just lets me get it off my chest and get [03:26] it out there. [03:28] >>Eighteen veterans commit suicide each day in this [03:31] country. Eighteen. Also, on the other end of this [03:35] spectrum, there's 4 million animals, sheltered animals, [03:39] killed in this country every year. So, that's what we do. [03:43] We take 4 million, and we pair them up with 6, 500 [03:47] per year. It's kind of like a Match. com between a [03:50] shelter pet and a veteran or emergency first [03:53] responder. This little guy was used for fighting. He was [03:54] a toy for other dogs to beat up on and they don't have [03:58] a choice. And right [04:03] of the-- Sorry. [04:08] What a better companion to have than [04:12] a veteran, like us, or a firefighter or a police officer to [04:16] help this little guy out, right? He [04:22] has the physical scars on the outside, but we have the [04:25] mental scars on the inside, so that's where we heal [04:29] each other and meet in the middle of the road, you [04:31] know? I [04:36] could share anything and everything with her, [04:38] unconditional love. And so, really, like, I got a good [04:41] family that loves me, friends that love me-- I love you [04:44] -- and I got her. Come here. Sit. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4712367/santa-monica-firefighter-dog-cpr/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4712367/santa-monica-firefighter-dog-cpr/"},"headline":"'Faith in Humanity Restored.' A Firefighter Brought a Dog Back to Life With CPR","datePublished":"2017-03-24T15:22:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:02:52.750Z","description":"A lifeless dog that was pulled out of an apartment fire in California was brought back to life after a firefighter performed mouth-to-mouth.","url":"https://time.com/4712367/santa-monica-firefighter-dog-cpr/","keywords":["Newsfeed","California","animals","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1dde9d85cb8bbd7/6988bfc10a4a22aa459cd676/firefighter-dog1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1dde9d85cb8bbd7/6988bfc10a4a22aa459cd676/firefighter-dog1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"firefighter-dog","caption":"A Santa Monica firefighter resuscitated a dog after performing CPR on it following an apartment fire.","creditText":"Photo courtesy Billy Fernando / via Santa Monica Fire Department","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4712367/santa-monica-firefighter-dog-cpr/","name":"'Faith in Humanity Restored.' A Firefighter Brought a Dog Back to Life With CPR"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Dogs Help Veterans Cope With Post-Traumatic Stress","description":"Struggling with post-traumatic stress, veteran David Sharpe says he found a dog at a shelter that saved his life. Now, with a group called P2V, he pairs other vets with rescued pets.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/8gW0ZGsw/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2010-11-11T12:52:52.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/8gW0ZGsw.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4712367/santa-monica-firefighter-dog-cpr/","duration":"PT5M11S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4712367/santa-monica-firefighter-dog-cpr/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```