On June 27, 2025, at 10:04 AM, the City of Troy’s Fire Department was dispatched to 473 2nd Street for multiple calls for a working structure fire. Engine six, engine three, engine two, truck one, truck two, the rescue squad, medic four, and the battalion chief responded to the scene. As units were responding to the scene in the clear morning sky a column of smoke was visible. The dispatcher notified all responding units that there was a dog trapped inside of the building and the owner of the dog was attempting to get to the dog. Engine six arrived on scene and had a two-story wood frame with heavy smoke pushing from the rear of the building and smoke pushing from the eaves of the structure and immediately transmitted the signal thirty for a working structure fire. The homeowner located on the back deck of the structure attempted numerous times to make entry to the structure to get to his dog.

Engine six immediately deployed an inch and three-quarter hand line through the front door of the structure and up to the second floor. Truck two pulled in front of engine six and established a water supply to the nearby hydrant. Members of the rescue squad, medic four and engine three parked at the end of the street and made their way down to the fire building. Truck one made its way down second Street and set up in the roadway. As they were doing so firefighters from the additional crews made their way inside to start the primary search for anyone inside of the structure and locate the puppy. As firefighters were doing so, they took out the front windows of the structure and thick heavy brown smoke pushed out of the structure. One of the firefighters conducting the primary search located the puppy and quickly brought the puppy out of the back of the house and notified command on the radio that the dog was out of the house safely and the primary search of the residence was negative.

Firefighters on the second-floor notified command also that they had heavy smoke beginning to push from the rear of the structure in the eaves. As soon as the firefighter notified command that the puppy was out of the structure the homeowner sprinted through the first floor of the building and out the back door and picked up the dog and brought it out front where the pump operator of engine six immediately began to give the dog oxygen with the assistant of the animal control officer. Firefighters on the second floor quickly knocked down the heavy fire condition in the rear of the structure. Firefighters on the roof conducted ventilation as they had a heavy smoke condition pushing from the eaves and from the cockloft. Firefighters on the second floor conducted a secondary search of the building and notified command that they had no occupants inside of the structure and those firefighters went to work overhauling the fire scene.

Firefighters came out front to change out their air bottles and make their way back inside of the structure to continue to conduct overhaul. Command began to conduct their investigation into what caused the fire. Within twenty minutes firefighters had the fire under control. No injuries were reported, and the puppy was taken to the vet for an evaluation. Troy Fire Department Lieutenant C. Patenaude is credited with the rescue of the puppy and Troy Firefighter K. Douglas is credited with providing oxygen and care to the puppy after it was brought outside by its loving owner. Firefighters remain on scene for an extended period of time. The Red Cross was contacted for the victims of the fire. The cause of the fire has not been released publicly.