What started as a serious crash on a highway near Kelowna, British Columbia, turned into a four-day search for a missing dog.
Dearah Jordan and her husband, Sharron, were struck by a pickup truck that ran them off the road. Their car rolled over, and Jordan suffered minor injuries.
When the crash stopped, Jordan said her focus was on Daisy, her Australian shepherd, who was missing. She began searching until first responders insisted she go to hospital.
Jordan was later discharged after doctors found nothing serious beyond scrapes and bruising, and she went back to look for her dog.
At the same time, Central Okanagan Search and Rescue volunteer Forrest Kellerman heard about the rollover from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police while responding to another call. After getting home, he looked up information about the crash and saw a notice that an Australian shepherd was missing.
Kellerman and his wife, Tracey, decided to search for Daisy. The next day, they spent hours looking around the crash site.
The following day, they met Dearah and Sharron, who had hardly slept since the crash. By then, Jordan told CBC News the community had joined the search in several ways, including physical searches, a thermal imaging drone and meals.
“People were bringing us food, satellite links, everything imaginable, like volunteers were coming out of the woodworks, just complete strangers. It was so emotional,” Jordan told CBC News.
On the fourth day after the crash, Tracey Kellerman returned to the site and searched in the immediate area of the collision. The pickup truck involved in the crash was still in the brush because its driver remained in hospital with serious injuries.
As she approached the truck, Tracey saw movement.
Daisy was sitting on the passenger seat.
Tracey did not make any sudden movements. She spoke gently to the dog and alerted Forrest, who was on the road, to go and get Jordan.
When Jordan saw Daisy, the dog “whimpered intensely” at seeing her, according to the report. Daisy was found 96 hours after the crash and was not seriously hurt.
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