Emergency crews have undertaken a particular rescue operation to avoid wasting a canine that spent practically seven hours caught on a cliff ledge in Queensland’s Glass House Mountains.
Key factors:
- Cooper the bull mastiff cross was trapped on a small ledge subsequent to a 25-metre drop at Mount Ngungun
- The canine had escaped from a close-by property after being spooked throughout a lightning storm
- Firefighters scaled the cliff face to get to the canine and fix it to a harness
Cooper the bull mastiff cross had escaped from a close-by property after being spooked by a lightning storm within the early hours of Thursday morning earlier than changing into trapped.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) have been referred to as in to assist after the house owners reported the pet’s plight at about 7:20am.
Maroochydore station officer Scott Daly stated Cooper was discovered midway up Mount Ngungun, trapped on a small ledge subsequent to a 25-metre drop.
“It [Cooper] wasn’t in a very good state. It was very chilly, shivering,” he stated.
“I’d say with the moist situations there final night time and the slipperiness of the rocks, it is fallen down into that little gully, and that is the place it stayed.”
Mr Daly stated it was a “bizarre, freak prevalence” however the emergency crews have been properly ready to assist.
“We really do have a specialised piece of apparatus, particularly for rescuing dogs,” he stated.
“It’s really a canine harness that may be hooked up to a line.
“Mostly it was a matter of making an attempt to climb up the facet of the mountain and round to get on prime of it and arrange some anchor factors.”
One crew member was lowered to the ledge, the place they hooked up the canine to the harness after which scaled the cliff to return to the bottom.
“Once we received maintain of it, it perked up considerably,” Mr Daly stated.
“Then, when it received into the arms of the house owners down beneath, it seemed contemporary as a daisy.”
Mr Daly stated the house owners have been “very grateful” to be reunited with their pet.
“They simply could not imagine how the canine received caught like that.”
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