A house fire response by the Aurora police and fire departments recently ended in the rescue of a 4-year-old dog, who appears to have guided a police investigator to a leash during the incident, body camera footage shows.

On the afternoon of Sept. 11, Michael Ely, a longtime officer with the Aurora Police Department who currently works as an Investigator in the department’s Crisis Intervention Unit, got a call about a house fire near where he and his partner, Investigator Jacob Leonard, were out in the community.

Volunteering to go, he and Leonard arrived on the scene of the fire before the fire department — which is common, he explained on Thursday, since police officers are generally out patrolling the community already.

The fire occurred at around 12:50 p.m. on the 2400 block of Whit

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