A sheriff’s deputy job is to respond when the community calls 911. But on Monday, the 911 call was about a deputy.
Warren County Sheriff’s Deputy Bennie Jost was at work when he got word that his house was on fire. His wife and the family’s four dogs were at home. He rushed there to see their house being consumed, but his wife was safe.
She got out with three of the dogs and and went back for the fourth.
“As far as I’m concerned, she’s a hero,” Jost said, himself an Iraq war veteran.
But when she opened the door to get the fourth dog out, another ran back inside, he said. They lost that dog, as well as their house.
“We lost our house, not our home,” he said. “We lost the pieces, not the memories. So we’ll have our home back.”
And sometimes, when it feels like everything is lost, …