In a miraculous act of instinct and alertness, a village dog in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district became a lifesaving hero after warning residents of an impending disaster in the dead of night. As relentless monsoon rains wreaked havoc across the state, triggering landslides, cloudbursts, and flash floods, it was a dog’s bark that gave 67 villagers in Siyathi just enough time to escape before catastrophe struck.