a dog once thought to be lost to a fire in an apartment building in virginia is now back with his grateful owner on thursday a fivealarm blaze tore through a threestory apartment building in the hills at southview apartment complex in harrisonburg leaving dozens displaced including james madison university student kayla blake blake who was not home at the time of the fire and who got the devastating call told abc news affiliate whsvtv that she was a wreck after hearing about her thirdfloor apartment and was particularly concerned about whether firefighters and first responders had rescued her dog rebel shed adopted rebel three years ago from the richmond animal league according to whsvtv more dog rescued after riding out north carolina floods for nearly a week on livingroom couch after florence blake said however that a k9 unit had told her parents it was unlikely that rebel had survived because of the flames the smoke and the possibility that the floors had given way in the building but two days later when blake and a friend returned to the complex to assess the damage she heard a familiar and welcoming sound from a window rebels bark she then called the police and fire department she said within a few minutes you know five six minutes one of the firefighters i heard him yell we got him and he looked out the window and gave me a thumbs up she told whsvtv more abc station reporter interrupts live stream to save dog from hurricane florence flooding video from the scene posted to social media showed first responders carrying out rebel as a crowd of onlookers cheered the dog had reportedly been hiding under a desk and a james madison university flag an area of the apartment that had not been destroyed by the fire according to whsvtv rebel suffered a burn on his nose and a few dropped pounds due to lack of food otherwise a veterinarian had checked him out and determined him to be ok blake said he goes everywhere with me she said so hes definitely gonna be a part of the part of my journey wherever i end up after this