An abused dog was left to die in a canal has now been taken in by a firefighter after his colleagues saved it from drowning on Sunday evening (October 14).<br /><br />Kindhearted Lloyd Brown, 58, is nursing the poorly pup back to health in between battling blazes. <br /><br />His colleagues at Miami-Dade Fire Rescue recovered the exhausted six-year-old Rottweiler on Sunday after it was spotted struggling to stay afloat. <br /><br />Three firefighters were filmed lifting the skeletal dog out of the muddy water, wrapping it in a yellow blanket before placing him onto a stretcher.