Man rescues puppy left to die in flame-filled trash bin in northern Minnesota

Faint whimpers on a subzero night caught the ear of the pickup truck driver visiting the garbage dump on the edge of a northern Minnesota reservation village.

Clayton Van Wert followed the sound to one of several bins inside the fenced-off yard. The metal dumpster was in flames.

Van Wert said he pounded on the side of the dumpster and heard “howling, crying” before a puppy “emerged from the bottom.”

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