Lights were out in the mountain village of Siyathi, northern India, but one resident clearly wasn’t interested in going to sleep.

Well past midnight on June 26th, Rocky the dog sat on the ground floor of a home in Himachal Pradesh state barking and howling loudly.

June being Monsoon season in India, rain was teeming down, but Rocky’s owner Lalit Kumar could hear the dog through his sleep and the weather.

“I was woken by my dog’s strange barking, as if he was trying to warn me,” Lalit said. “When I reached him, I saw a huge crack in the wall and water pouring in.”

An awful thing to find so late at night, but when Lalit went downstairs to wake the rest of his family, that’s when he saw it: a wall of onrushing water and earth coming down the mountain towards the town.

Grabbing the dog and his family, he ran along the streets waking neighbors until 22 families had assembled and fled to high ground. Moments later, the landslide arrived and wrecked 12 out of 17 homes in the village in a wave of mud and debris.

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67 people lived there, each and every one owing their lives to Rocky the dog, whom Kumar had gotten from his brother just 3 months before.

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