Momma Kirsch!

Ever heard of the 9/11 story of the Thunder Dog, the New Jersey dog who saved her blind owner in the WTC? She was a yellow Lab named Roselle. She lived in Westfield, New Jersey, with Michael Hingson, who has been blind since birth. Every morning they took the train into the city. On Sept. 11 she was asleep under his desk on the 78th floor of the North Tower She hated thunderstorms. That morning she stayed calm Hingson could not see the fire. He trusted her instead. They went down 78 flights, about 1,463 steps in the dark, past firefighters going up. She guided him around obstacles when there was room, and walked at his heel when there wasn’t After they got out, the South Tower fell. She led him into a subway entrance through the dust. That night they made it home to New Jersey. She picked up her tug toy and played There is actually a book about her called, *Thunder Dog* because the dog who shook at thunder did not shake when the building did Roselle died in 2011. Remember her New Jersey