Weeks after it disappeared over the Fourth of July weekend, a small dog was pulled from the San Francisco Bay and returned to its family.
The Menlo Park Fire Protection District said someone called 911 on 16 July after seeing a dog enter the bay near the Dumbarton Bridge in East Palo Alto.
The dog “just kept swimming”, according to a Menlo Park Fire Protection District Instagram post.
The district sent at least two trucks, a boat and an airboat after the dog. Rescuers first spotted it from the ground with binoculars, then used a drone while pursuing it from the water.
Fire and police officers helped with the rescue. The department later released footage of the operation on social media.
The dog was also photographed being toweled off by a team of tattooed firefighters.
Authorities later turned the dog over to the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which found the pup’s family and returned it.
“Dog and family have been reunited,” the Menlo Park Fire Protection District’s Instagram post reads.
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