Watch rescuers wade through chest-deep flood water to save pet stuck in SC doghouse
Tornadoes and thunderstorms that whisked through the Southeast on Thursday left much of the Carolinas with downed power lines, fallen trees and flooding.
Taylors, South Carolina — just outside Greenville — was no exception.
A rescue crew in the suburb of roughly 22,000 people had to use an inflatable raft Thursday to save a dog from rising flood waters, video posted on the Taylors Fire and Rescue Facebook page shows.
Taylors Sewer District spotted the “animal in distress,” according to a separate post.
A crew of four rescue workers then paddled out to the dog on an inflatable raft, the video shows. One of the rescuers, while tethered to the boat, waded in the nearly chest-high flood waters to reach the pet — who was sitting in what appears to be a doghouse.
Rescuers had to open a gate in a chain-link fence to reach the dog.
The video shows the worker prodding the ground in front of him with an oar as he slowly makes his way to the animal with flood waters up to its neck. He then removed debris from the front of the dog house before laying the oar down on its roof and coaxing the animal out.
The rescuer then waded back across the fenced-in yard to the waiting boat with the dog in his arms.
In a final shot, he’s seen going back for the oar.
Pictures posted earlier in the day show a second, smaller dog was also rescued by the boat crew. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the animals came from the same house.
Greenville County was under a flood warning until 9:15 p.m. Thursday, FOX Carolina reported. According to the National Weather Service, parts of the county remained under the warning on Friday. Schools were also closed.
This story was originally published February 7, 2020 at 6:45 PM with the headline "Watch rescuers wade through chest-deep flood water to save pet stuck in SC doghouse."
