Firefighters enter burning home to save 5 puppies from fire [Video]

MUSKEGON COUNTY, Mich. — It was the whine that was just in time.

“We didn’t think they would survive,” said Adam Morse, a firefighter and fire inspector for Egelston Township Fire Department.

First responders were called to a large house fire early Saturday morning. Their actions over the next couple hours are what’s earning them a new nickname.

“They’re superheroes in our book,” said Lana Carson, director of Pound Buddies Animal Shelter. 

When they arrived, they found smoke pouring out of the roof of an Egelston Township home and got to work. 

“They’re just drenched in sweat, they’re just dirty. They’re just filled with all of this smoke,” said Carson, describing the firefighters when she first arrived to the scene. 

That’s when they found out there was five puppies still …