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It was like a lot of other drug busts. The police served a warrant, found narcotics, made arrests. But, in a back room, they discovered something else.
“We found a little dog that was all burned up, burned on its back and sides,” former Lt. Russell Schaefer said. “This dog had been set on fire.”
It struggled to limp toward them.
“It was, like, ‘Thank God, you’re here,’” Schaefer said.
Another officer called over Nancy Lipman, a cop who’d rescued dozens of animals over the years. She cradled the puppy, then took it to a veterinarian.
After nursing her back to health, Ms. Lipman found a home for the dog, who was renamed Heidi.