Mark Stoss and Chloe (Daniel Shapiro)
She cheated death once.
But yesterday, plucky sailboat pup Chloe — dubbed the city’s “luckiest dog” after she survived an icy dunk in the Hudson last month — died in a raging fire as her owner watched helplessly from a Chelsea pier.
“I lost a half-million-dollar boat, and I’m more upset about Chloe,” said owner Mark Stoss, 42, in a bedside interview at Bellevue Hospital.
“She follows me everywhere I go, so I assumed she was behind me when I was running from the fire.
“Maybe she was scared.”
When Chloe was rescued from the frigid Hudson on Jan. 7, the feisty German shepherd stole the city’s heart with her rambunctious energy.
On that day, Detective Matthew Sherman, an NYPD scuba diver, pulled the shivering pup from the water as she furiously paddled to keep her head above the surface.
Stoss recalled yesterday that it was the “gnarly” smell of burning plastic that awakened him at about 2:30 a.m. as he and Chloe slept in the cabin of his 35-foot catamaran docked at Pier 59 near West 17th Street.
“I opened the door, and it just fanned the fire,” he said. “The flames went . . . crazy. Fire came down the hall and was going up the walls. I just ran.”
Stoss said he tried to go back in for Chloe.
“I couldn’t see her or hear her, and I dove out of the boat” onto the pier, he said. “When I was outside, I saw my whole cabin up in flames.”
She is the second pet dog Stoss has lost in just four weeks. He said he had to put down his ailing 10-year-old dog, Rocky, three weeks ago.
“It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done by far,” he said.
Stoss was being treated at Bellevue for smoke-related damage to his throat and lungs.
“I’m doing just OK,” he said sadly.
The fire aboard his boat raged for two hours before 60 firefighters brought it under control.
Space heaters were being eyed as a possible cause of the blaze, a source told The Post.
The fire also destroyed a boat anchored next to Stoss’ catamaran.