2026年5月29日 美国东部时间晚8:52 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：史蒂夫·哈特曼
史蒂夫·哈特曼是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻通讯员，他通过每周获奖的专题栏目《在路上》，为观众带来他所遇见的独特人物的暖心故事。
得克萨斯州沃斯堡市 —— 得克萨斯州沃斯堡市第8消防站是所谓的“安全婴儿站点”，绝望的父母可以在这里留下无力照料的婴儿。
本月早些时候，有人在消防站旗杆基座旁留下了一个“小生命”：一只名叫杰克的狗狗。
随杰克一同留下的还有一张字条，上面写着：“他叫杰克……如果你们真的关心帮助婴儿，请帮帮我的孩子。”
“看得出来他一直被爱着，”沃斯堡消防队长杰森·布莱恩特告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻记者关于杰克的情况，“他非常健康、强壮，看得出来从来没饿过一顿饭。”
杰克此前和一名名叫汤姆·迈纳的无家可归男子一起生活。但两年前，迈纳的房东告诉他不能再养狗，他因此无家可归。
迈纳最终不情愿地决定送走杰克，因为他认为自己的狗狗应该过上更好的生活。
“我每天都活在这件事的阴影里，”迈纳说，“……这绝对是我做过的最艰难的决定。”
迈纳说，他把杰克留在消防站后就跑开了，因为他“不敢回头看”。
但随后出现了转机。消防站的队员们决定将杰克收为他们的“队宠”。
之后，沃斯堡消防部门说服当地一家企业为迈纳捐赠了一辆露营车，迈纳也有了新的住处。
“这就是我的家，”迈纳谈到露营车时说，“哪儿都比不上家。”
消防部门还为他提供了生活物资，并安排他看牙医，尽一切所能帮助迈纳重新站稳脚跟。
等到那一天到来时，消防员们也打算填补他内心的空缺，将杰克还给他。
“总有一天，他会回家的，”迈纳说。
消防部门强调，这种情况属于一次性例外，因为他们不能让公众随意将狗狗送到消防站。
“如果我们能把杰克还给汤姆，我想那会是所有人都期待的圆满结局，”布莱恩特说，“……到时候恐怕会有30个大男人哭红眼眶。”
When a Texas man was forced to give up his dog, a fire station gave him a home: “You could tell he’s been loved”
May 29, 2026 8:52 PM EDT / CBS News
By Steve Hartman
Steve Hartman is a CBS News correspondent. He brings viewers moving stories from the unique people he meets in his weekly award-winning feature segment “On the Road.”
Fort Worth, Texas — Fire Station 8 in Fort Worth, Texas, is what is called a “safe baby site,” a place where desperate parents can leave a baby they are unable to care for.
Earlier this month, a little one was left right at the base of the fire station’s flagpole: a dog named Jake.
Accompanying Jake was a note that read, “His name is Jake…If you really care about helping babies, please help my baby.”
“You could tell he’s been loved,” Fort Worth Fire Capt. Jason Bryant told CBS News about Jake. “Super healthy, super strong. You can tell he hadn’t missed a meal.”
Jake had been living with a homeless man named Tom Miner. But Miner became homeless a couple years ago after his landlord told him he couldn’t keep his dog.
Miner finally decided to give up Jake, begrudgingly, because he believed his dog deserved a better life.
“I live with that every day,” Miner said. “…It is, hands down, the hardest decision I ever made.”
Miner said he ran from the fire station after dropping Jake off because he “couldn’t look back.”
But then came a bright side. The crew at the fire station decided to keep Jake as their own.
Then, Miner got a new place too when the Fort Worth Fire Department convinced a local business to donate a camper to him.
“This is my home,” Miner said of the camper. “And there ain’t no place like home.”
The fire department also provided supplies and arranged for him to see a dentist, doing everything it could to make sure Miner gets back on his feet.
And when that day comes, the firefighters plan to fix the hole in his heart as well by returning Jake to him.
“One day he’s coming home,” Miner said.
The fire department stressed that this situation was a one-time exception, because it cannot have the public dropping off dogs at its fire stations.
“If we can hand Jake back over to Tom, I think that’s the happy ending everybody wants,” Bryant said. “…I think there’ll be 30 grown men bawling.”