Photo: Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue/Twitter
A 12-year-old dog who fell down an abandoned well is now back on dry land thanks to a group of firefighters in Oregon.
Calvin, agolden retriever, was safely pulled from the bottom of a well in Aloha on Monday, according to theTualatin Valley Fire & Rescue.
The department said on social media that firefighters from two of its stations used a tripod and rope system to reach the pup, who had been trapped underground for four hours before his rescue.
Calvin was brought back to the surface after a rescuer was lowered into the well to secure the pooch.
Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue/Twitter
Patton said he and his wife, Sheryl, spent two hours searching for Calvin before noticing that their two other dogs, Fergus and Margaret, kept going to an old pump house.
“When he heard them, he started barking from the well and as soon as I heard that I knew what had happened,” he recalled. “I started ripping up the rotted plywood and called the fire department.”
Patton said he believes that Calvin was chasing a squirrel when he fell through some rotted plywood that was covering the well.
Tim Nokes, a spokesperson for the Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, told Pamplin Media Group that the well wasapproximately 30 feet deepand Calvin was treading water when rescuers arrived on scene.
“Incidents like this don’t happen very often, so it was a good training opportunity for our technical rescue team,” said Nokes. “We can simulate technical rescues similar to that, but it’s not very often where we actually have a 30-foot-deep well we get to send someone down inside.”
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