Janet O’Reilly has been keeping a close eye on the Wesley Ridge wildfire burning on Vancouver Island, as her house is just outside the current evacuation alert zone.

However, that has not stopped her from going for daily walks with her dogs.

But on Sunday morning, with the noise of the fire nearby, the planes and the bucketing, O’Reilly heard a new sound.

“I heard a dog crying,” she told Global News.

“I heard a dog barking in the woods.”

O’Reilly continued on with her walk and then on the way back, she heard the crying again.

She wasn’t able to go investigate but she went home, went to work, went for another dog walk with a friend in a different area and that’s when a neighbour came to her house saying she had also heard barking and crying and had stumbled across a dog tied to a tree

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