Hot Dogs?

ALPINE FOREST FIRE?

Police dog dies in sweltering patrol car!

Belgian Malinois named "Forest" was left in car in Alpine, where temperature topped 100 degrees

Police are investigating the death of a 5-year-old Belgian Malinois police dog named Forest who was found Friday in the back of his handler's squad car in Alpine, where the temperature soared to more than 100 degrees.

In 2000, a Superior Court jury deadlocked 9 to 3 to acquit a San Diego officer on a misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty in the heat-exhaustion death of a police dog.

The judge then dismissed the charge, which had been recommended by the Police Department. That would never happen in a Citizens case who was not a cop.