RubberBuzz || Akron Unleashed: Happy Story

12.27.2005

Happy Story

This could quite possibly be the happiest story of all time.

Akron firefighters spent an hour Monday pulling a 70-pound dog from the icy waters of Summit Lake.

They got the call at 11:25 a.m. -- a German shepherd-collie mix was bobbing in a slushy patch on the east end of the lake. Fifteen minutes later, eight divers fought the wind and cold to get an ice sled 350 feet out to the dog.[...]

The canine rescue was the dive team's third or fourth in the past 10 years, Moore said -- and Akron firefighter Frank Poletta's second.[...]

Without a collar, all dogs are taken by the dog warden to the pound. Poletta hopes an owner or adoptive family will come to the rescue.

Now all poocher needs is a good home away from semi-frozen lakes.

The BJ :: Firefighters save dog after plunge

(joe :: Happy Story)

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