GRAWN, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – About 4:20 a.m. on Friday, January 5th, firefighters were called to the home of 52-year-old Dawn Radtke and 51-year old Brian Sogge. The couple lives at County Road 633 between Hilltop Road and Norton Road south of Grawn. According to Up North Live, the area was shut down for several hours while the fire crews battled the flames of the fast-burning house fire.

Blair Township Fire rescued Brian, who was unconscious and partially inside of the home. A deputy was able to locate Dawn who was inside of her car, having tried to get the attention of her neighbors to call 9-1-1.

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Both were eventually transported to separate hospitals to receive additional medical care after first responders arrived. Dawn went to Munson Medical Center in Traverse City and Brian was airlifted to a hospital in Grand Rapids. Dawn and Brian are both still hospitalized, recovering from their injuries and burns.

Dawn’s daughter, Nichole Korb, received a call about what happened around 5:00 a.m. from Munson Medical Center after multiple unsuccessful attempts to reach her using various numbers provided by Dawn, who was without her cell phone.

How can you help?

Korb has started a GoFundMe campaign for her parents, who lost the house and everything in it. And while her parents are being treated and are recovering in the hospital, Korb has spent several days looking for the couple’s beloved dogs. Her sister, Jessica Seaney has been by her side the whole time.

Bruiser is a two-month-old brindle Boxer American Bulldog mix and Emma is a seven-year-old black Pit Bull with white markings on her face. Korb said that her parents have had Emma since she was a puppy and had just gotten Bruiser right after Thanksgiving.

Neither dogs are microchipped or have ID on them and Korb is asking everyone to share their information in hopes that someone runs across the dogs.

Tracks suggest that the dogs made it out of the house.

Korb initially didn’t think the dogs could have made it out of the burning house but the fire investigators told her that no remains of the dogs had been found in the house.

Korb started searching for the dogs around 3:00 p.m. the same day as the fire and had found tracks leading away from the home, going across the road and zig zagging, crossing 633 heading towards E. Duck Lake Rd.

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When asked if the tracks could have been made before the fire, Korb said that her parents had an invisible fence for Emma and that the puppy stayed with her. Going across the road wasn’t something that would have happened under normal circumstances. Korb believes the dogs took off during the fire and are hiding out nearby in the woods.

What happened?

Korb says that her mother had fallen asleep in the bathtub. After waking up, Dawn went into the living room where Brian was sleeping. Dawn had heard a hissing sound out of the propane heater and woke up Brian. He told his wife to get out of the house while he attempted to get the heater out of the room. However, the heater ignited when he grabbed it and the house started burning rapidly.

Korb said that her mom, with no shoes or clothes on, ran to the neighbor’s house to get help since both of the couple’s cell phones were inside of the burning house. She says that her mom can’t walk well without a cane because of previous health conditions and fell multiple times running to get help.

Because the neighbors hadn’t come to the door when she tried to alert them to the fire, Dawn had jumped in her car to drive over to them and honk the horn.

The road to recovery.

Because of the fire and as a result of her attempts to alert her neighbors to the fire, Dawn suffered from smoke inhalation and severe pain in her back, legs and knees. She will be at the Munson Medical Center in Traverse City until she is able to stand and walk on her own.

Brian was airlifted to a hospital in Grand Rapids with severe burns. Korb believes it was a result of going back in the home for the dogs as firefighters found him unconscious near the back entrance of the house. Brian was in ICU for two days and is now stable in recovery but has about 10% of his body covered in burns – to his feet, hands, head, face and back.

Korb says her mom and stepfather are both suffering from multiple blackouts during this traumatic event and have a long recovery both physically and mentally – and both in wheelchairs.

The search for Emma and Bruiser.

Grateful that her parents are alive and being taken care of in the hospital, Korb has been active on social media posting photos of the missing dogs. She’s also contacted animal shelters and has been searching for miles in areas near the burned out home trying to find the dogs. Emma and Bruiser are all her parents keep asking about.

Korb said that while searching on Saturday and Sunday, she saw small and larger paw prints so she thinks that the dogs are still together. However, after losing the tracks near a cow pasture on US-31, she thinks maybe they are bunkered down in an abandoned shed or somewhere hiding because of the trauma.

Korb said that the garage on the property is still standing and she has left some blankets and food out in case the dogs go back to the house. Despite her hopefulness that they will return to the house on their own, she wonders if between the trauma and the smell of the fire, they might be too scared to do so.

Anyone who sees the dogs should call Korb at 231-350-8501.