Rescue crews save dog trapped in drain pipe

BOSTON (WHDH) - Rescue crews were capable to escaped a canine that got stuck successful a drainpipe successful a parkland successful Boston pursuing a lengthy betterment effort connected Wednesday afternoon.

Firefighters responding to Millennium Park successful West Roxbury aft 2 p.m. utilized a camera successful an effort to pinpoint the dog, named Hubert, wrong the pipe.

Video from SKY7 HD showed respective firefighters gathered astir a trench adjacent a obstruction arsenic they worked to prevention the animal.

Firefighters and inferior crews spent 2 hours trying to get the husky hound retired and hoisted him to information soon earlier 4:30 p.m.

“He’s a small overweight similar immoderate of us,” 1 of the rescuers joked. “It’s a sixteen-inch tube truthful arsenic he’s moving forward, helium can’t determination back. So we deed him successful the backside and the occurrence guys were capable to propulsion him up implicit the manhole.”

The canine appeared to beryllium unscathed arsenic it trotted distant with its owners aft the rescue operation.

“This is 1 fortunate dog,” Hubert’s proprietor said. “And we are truthful fortunate to unrecorded successful this metropolis and for the metropolis to instrumentality it that seriously…unbelievable.”

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