Fire crews had been referred to as to the home after neighbours heard a hearth alarm ringing.
The crew from Lincoln’s South Park Fire Station entered by way of the rear of the building after trying by way of the letterbox and smelling smoke.
Crew supervisor Kenny McLaughlin stated after listening to no response from anybody within the building he acquired “a crew in there as quick as doable”.
After extinguishing the fireplace they “discovered a bit canine proper beside the place the fireplace began and it wasn’t respiration”, Mr McLaughlin stated.
“It was fully black and sooted,” he added.
After giving the canine CPR and oxygen by way of a specifically tailored masks, the canine got here round, which he stated “was wonderful”.