Even the trained firefighters on the scene were hesitating. But Keith Walker did not even pause for a second. On the morning of December 18th, 2020, Keith Walker, a then 53-year-old man living on the streets of Atlanta, Georgia, was simply walking over to the W-Underdogs animal shelter to pick up his beloved pit bull Bravo for their daily morning walk.
Over the next few terrifying minutes, he made trip after trip through the smoke, methodically pulling out every single trapped cat and dog from their cages one at a time until he had personally saved all sixteen animals inside. Walker had been experiencing homelessness ever since he was just 13 years old, and W-Underdogs founder Gracie Hamlin had been kindly letting him keep Bravo at the shelter overnight for some time.
As Walker himself later told CNN, “God put me there to save those animals.” Hamlin would go on to call him her guardian angel, and a GoFundMe campaign set up in his honor by community members eventually raised close to ninety thousand dollars in donations for him.
Would you have rushed into a burning building to save trapped animals, or trusted the firefighters to handle it? Where do you stand? 
As he approached the building, he was horrified to spot thick smoke pouring out from underneath the front door. An electrical fire had broken out earlier that morning inside the shelter’s small kitchen, and the entire building was already filling with dangerous smoke. While the responding firefighters were busy carefully calling animal control for additional help, Walker simply popped open the front door and rushed straight into the burning building all by himself.
