Video: High Springs Fire Department rescues puppy from sinkhole
Press release from High Springs Fire Department
HIGH SPRINGS, Fla. – At 10:10 a.m. on the morning of July 29, the High Springs Fire Department was dispatched to the intersection of NW 255th Terrace and NW 168th Place in High Springs’ Cinnamon Hills Estates neighborhood for a report of a dog stuck in a sinkhole. At 10:21 a.m., High Springs Firefighters arrived on the scene of a 15-foot-deep sinkhole that had opened up a few days earlier inside a stormwater retention basin, with an 11-week-old Labradoodle puppy trapped, but uninjured, at the bottom of the hole.
Within minutes of arrival, firefighters began rescue operations, first attempting to create a sort of hammock, using ropes and a foldable tarp-like device used for moving patients, called a “MegaMover,” with treats and peanut butter inside, in the hopes of being able to safely encapsulate the dog within the MegaMover and bring it up to the ground. Unsuccessful in luring the puppy with treats, firefighters deployed a ladder and lowered Firefighter/Paramedic Kim Arnold into the hole, where she was able to successfully rescue the puppy.
Recent technical rescue and animal rescue training attended by Firefighter Arnold and other members of our department paid off in yet another successful rescue.
Watch Firefighter Arnold rescue the puppy here:
and less hair than from other breeds was left behind in the sink to polllute the local springs! We’re talking a total win-win, thanks to the HSFD!
😍😍aahhhhh, good news for once…. thank you fire department and thank you Alachua Chronicle.