After being missing since Halloween, a dog was spotted in a storm drain and retrieved by the authorities.
According to reports from FOX 25, the small critter was spotted in a storm drain and rescued on Thursday by members of the Oklahoma City Fire Department and the Oklahoma City Animal Welfare Society.
The fire department released a photo of the puppy on Facebook as soon as it was rescued by firefighters. During the scene, two firefighters are seen standing side by side, with one carrying the dog in a towel while the other observes.
In a social media post, the fire department said that “Station 19A assisted @okcanimalwelfare in discovering and retrieving this lovely little dog that had been lost since Halloween.”
“This great little puppy had been gone since Halloween,” the post continued. It was determined that the dog had been safely removed from the storm drain and had been restored to its owner in good condition.
According to Oklahoma’s News 4, the fire department was called in to aid the Oklahoma City Animal Welfare Society in retrieving a dog that had gone missing earlier in the week.
A similar rescue operation in Oklahoma City follows on the heels of two such operations that took place in the previous year.
Early this year, a senior dog who had been lost for two days in a storm drain in Texas was discovered and rescued from the same area. Rescuers were able to free her despite the fact that she was more than 400 feet from the drain’s entrance, according to a post on the Arlington Fire Department’s Facebook page at the time. After removing concrete and obtaining access to the pipe, they were able to free her.
After creeping into a storm sewer while out walking with his owner in Boston last October, the four-year-old foxhound was recovered by the city’s stormwater management department. During the stroll, the dog had managed to go down the storm drain.
According to the Associated Press, firefighters had to drill holes in the pipe and use a camera to track the dog that had been stuck within, while National Grid, a gas company, used a backhoe “to dig past the dog.” The dog was eventually rescued.
