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Huntsville, Alabama, resident Ray Worrilow had someone save his bacon--literally.
Wheelchair-bound Worrilow was cooking bacon when a grease splatter sparked a fire. He tried to stop the growing blaze, but lost control of his chair and fell to the floor, unable to get back up.
Luckily his neighbor’s five year old German shepherd Deja (pictured) came to his rescue, dragging him by his shirt and barking for backup.
Worrilow said that is it wasn't for Deja he would likely be ash in what is left with his home.
Since the incident, Deja has been recognized by the mayor for her brave actions.
There are plans for Deja and her owner Amy Litaker to travel to schools in local Lincoln County to talk about the importance of caring for animals.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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