Plot Summary:Ten-year old Ted Dodd is on a driving trip with his parents and his beloved German shepherd dog Buddy, when a reckless driver swerves into the path of his parents' car, sending the vehicle plunging into a ravine, where it bursts into flames. Ted's parents perish in the conflagration, but Buddy pulls his young master to safety. Speeding to the accident scene, a rescue squad finds Ted and takes him to the hospital in an ambulance, but not realizing that Buddy is Ted's dog, they leave the canine behind. With only the sound of the ambulance's siren as a clue to Ted's whereabouts, Buddy returns to the wreck, where he finds his master's baseball glove, which he picks up with his teeth. Knowing only that Ted was taken away in a vehicle with a siren, Buddy races after police cars, fire engines and ambulances in a desperate search for his missing master. At the hospital, meanwhile, Ted is in shock and unresponsive to the care of his physicians, Dr. White and Dr. Lusk. The police, on the alert ...