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1926: Miracle on 99th Street: Fanny, Sandy, and Peggy, the Dogs Who Saved the Winter Refugees of New York

Posted: 14th December 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Mascots, Dog Tails, FDNY Horses/Mascots
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“The barking of two dogs, answering each other on the wind and sleet swept East River saved the lives of more than 80 men, women and children asleep in the cabins of a line of 40 coal barges, torn from their moorings, at the foot of East 96th Street.”–New York Daily News, December 27, 1926