Heartwarming video shows the moment a Seattle dog owner was reunited with her black Labrador retriever after the presumed dead pup survived for nearly a week buried under a hail of debris left by a landslide that leveled her home.
'It's Mommy!' a sobbing but overjoyed Didi Fritts can be heard saying in the Thursday footage as a fireman emerges with her pooch Sammy.
Once reunited, an emotional Fritts attempts to comfort the clearly shaken animal.
'My baby. My baby,' the dog mom coos to her pet in the clip, which was released by the Seattle Fire Department later that day.
Heartwarming video shows the moment Seattle dog owner Didi Fritts was reunited with her black Labrador retriever Sally Thursday, after the presumed dead pup survived for nearly a week buried under a hail of debris left by a landslide that leveled her home
Touching footage shows the rescue effort, with one Seattle fireman emerging from the debris with the still-shaken pooch. The pup had been discounted as dead last Friday, after the two-story, hillside home in the seaside Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle collapsed on itself
The touching reunion came as a great relief to Fritts, whose life was sent reeling Friday after the Magnolia home she shared with her husband, James, literally collapsed on itself last Friday.
The pair, as well as their two pooches, three-year-old Sammy and her sister, Lilli, had been inside the house when it was destroyed, sliding 15 feet off its foundation on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean due to a landslide.
Miraculously, the Frittses, who were caught in the collapse, managed to escape the wreckage and survive.
Didi, right, and her husband James, pictured here being interviewed after the collapse, had been inside the house as it collapsed last Friday, but miraculously escaped the ordeal unhurt
'It was a loud roar, and the whole thing came down on us,' Didi told local outlet King 5 Friday after the harrowing ordeal.
She recounted to the paper how, through the chaos, she was able to locate her husband in the debris of the two-story home, which has since been deemed to be no longer fit to be lived in by the city's Department of Construction and Inspections.
Didi said she was heading for the front door of the house when the natural disaster stuck, causing the second story to collapse.
The Seattle woman then found herself pinned beneath a layer of debris and dirt.
Firefighters returned to the scene Thursday, nearly a week after the disastrous event, after a neighbor reported hearing whimpers in the wreckage
Rescue officials eventually located the still-alive pup and pulled her from
