Truck driver hailed as a hero for saving starved puppy left for dead in burning trash bin at Minnesota garbage dump Clayton Van Wert, 55, heard whimper coming from a trash container Friday night and found a tiny husky mix engulfed in flames inside Van Wert says given Phoenix’s size, there is no way he could have jumped inside the 4-foot-tall trash bin Helpless whimpers carried through the frigid Minnesota night air led a passing truck driver to a burning trash can, at the bottom of which he spotted a puppy engulfed in flames. Clayton Van Wert said he was visiting the garbage dump on the edge of the Red Lake Indian Reservation Friday night when he made the shocking discovery.
