A dog survived eight days in a building which had caught fire claiming the lives of two people . Zeus the dog went missing in Schenectady , New York state and ended up in an abandoned building which had been destroyed by a fire . The bodies of two men were found in the building . Chief of the local fire department Raymond Senecal told Wnyt.com that his officers spotted the dog peering out of a window and started the process of retrieving him . Scroll down for video . Stacey Lyndon was delighted to be reunited with her dog Zeus who was missing for more than a week . Zeus was lured from the destroyed building by firefighters with the offer of a slice of pizza used as bait . He said : 'We were able to get up there and lure him out with a little bit of pizza of all things . He looks really happy . I think he 's probably a little bit hungry . ' I do n't even know . It 's incredible . ' The fact that the dog survived the inferno is the second piece of luck for Zues who was rescued by his owner Stacey Lydon who found him tied to a pole . She said : ' I never gave up hope . I really did n't . Without any signs of a body , I would never stop looking for him . ' Sergeant Matt Dearing of Schenectady Police Department told Global News : 'Obviously crews are progressing , continuing to try to remove debris and attempting to locate any remains still left inside 104 Jay Street . ' The fire broke out as the area endured sub-zero temperatures to such an extent that water froze solid onto the fire fighters battling the blaze . Firefighters and their equipment were covered in ice on Friday as they fought the blaze in Schenectady . Zeus the dog was rescued from the building , pictured , after it was destroyed by the massive inferno . Three fire fighters were injured as was one person who leaped from the fifth floor to escape from the fire . The fire first broke out in a building across from city hall and spread next door . Both buildings had apartments on upper levels and commercial space on the ground floor . The cause of the fire is unknown . Chief Senacal said his officers were forced to shovel out snow which had buried several fire hydrants in a bid to battle the blaze . Firefighters remained at the scene for almost 24 hours in an effort to extinguish the flames .
Zeus the dog spent eight days inside a building which had caught fire . Police found two dead bodies amid the charred remains of the building . Firemen lured Zues from the destroyed building using pizza as bait . Owner Stacey Lydon said she never gave up hope of finding her dog .