realize how bad it was. reporter: it was late friday afternoon. the blaze was tearing from the adelaide hills straight from daniela and jim s property. so daniela packed the car with valuables and hit the road with their dog but soon realized it was too late. everywhere else was black and burning. reporter: as she tried to outrun the fire, her car flipped on her side. daniela couldn t get out. with flames licking at the car, she made a frantic phone call to jim. all i heard was i m trapped in the car and it s burning. i don t know that he heard me. reporter: it was only a stroke of luck that daniela was able to make that fateful fire. everything in it was out of reach, trapped in her seat, the only thing daniela could get her hands on was her mobile phone because it was still attached to her charger. she managed to get out, jack the
otherwise on the backside of the system for today, that snow winding down across iowa, minnesota, and also sections of wisconsin with anywhere between four to nine inches of snow. now let s head back inside. steve, gretchen and eric. steve: it is still winter. thank you. gretchen: they say dogs are man s best friend. but did you know dogs can have best friends, too? steve: yep. we got proof for you. meet chico, a dog from colorado who is completely blind. but his blindness isn t a problem because the dog actually has a seeing eye dog. his best friend, jack the dog. today these two catalogs are up for adoption. eric: joining us are jack, chico and erica jenkins from denver, colorado. tell us the story. it s heart warming. go. all right. these two dogs came to us, in a no kill animal shelter from a family whose owner passed away and they were no longer able to care for them. so they came to us.
they re about eight years old. super sweet dogs, jack takes care of chico. they love each other and lick each other and clean each other and just couldn t be separated. steve: unfortunately, you don t know much about their story. you just know the story from the last day of last year, december 31, when they dropped them off. that s correct. steve: you had to connect the dots yourself, right? yeah. we don t know why chico s eyes were removed. but he is fully blind. i m guessing some sort of eye disease at some point. but we don t have the story. all we know is that they re really great, sweet dogs that just need a loving home. gretchen: you say they would be great with kids and yeah. they d be great for a family with no other pets. jack is a little protective of chico. he cares for him and wants to make sure he s safe. eric: tell us, if people are interested, where can they get in contact with you? they can look us up at max