Just watched the video. The guy was holding onto the back end of the dog and the dog was clamped onto the firefighter’s hand.
It was like really bad rodeo.
I saw the rescue live, and it was great.
That 50 year old firefighter risked his life, and the result was good.
Must have been a slow news day. 5 minutes later they did a story on a coloring book contest. Sorry, just have a bad attitude this morning.
“...find the dog a new home with one of the hundreds of families that have already come forward inquiring about adopting the dog.”
I’m sure that there are plenty more in the dog pound.
I would have loved to hear the justification if, God forbid, the chopper had gone down and the pilot and firefighter died.....for a DOG!!!
I've got a German Shepherd and I love her... but I would never put her life over that of a human... especially a firefighter and pilot who have families and support kids...
What kind of PC idiot would risk that for a dog. It was stupid and dangerous.
Yeah.... great. You saved a dog. Put a couple of units out of service for awhile, wasted flight fuel and man hours in a city/county that is going bankrupt.... for a dog that more than likely would have somehow managed to get up the bank or drift down far enough that the water have gone down enough for it to get out on it's own.
When are the choppers and SWAT going to go to the city animal shelter and throw down some flash bangs, make a dynamic entrance and free the dogs about to get put down? I wonder if they could use the APC to just ram through a wall to free the dogs that we KNOW are going to die unless we free them....
I don't know, but somehow I think humans are worth more than animals... but that's just me.
I thought that the dog would have eventually gotten out on his own. Lots of stories out there about people going out to save a dog only to die themselves and the dogs make it to safety.
Watching that video, I’m sorry but that was very stupid and dangerous rescue. The dog was not drowning, it was standing on the concrete bank. The dog would have gotten out on his own eventually. To make a helicopter rescue in bad weather is dangerous.
He's lucky that's all that happened to him. I like dogs as much as the next guy, but a dog is never worth a human life. You would have thought one of this guys supervisors whould have been screaming into the radio to call off that rescue. It was a foolish thing to do.
Knowing the dog would be scared to death, I don’t understand why the FF didn’t get some protection for his arms and throat from some canine officers; maybe it would have impaired his mobility too much. Still, I look at this as a good training exercise in case next time it’s a human out there, as opposed to those who think it’s a waste of money.