Rescuers believed a lost seven-year-old couldn’t survive a freezing night in the Cascades—but an unexpected hero proved them wrong and changed everything

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Boomer wasn’t comforting her.

He was deliberately transferring body heat.

The old Malinois had turned himself into a living furnace.

Hours later, back at the command post, Sarah handed me the radio as static crackled through the speaker.

“Mark,” Elias said, sounding exhausted, “your daughter is alive. But we can’t continue reading …