McHENRY TOWNSHIP, Ill. (CBS) — Two folks have been taken to the hospital Thursday night after getting caught in a canine battle in McHenry County.
Two others, each sheriff’s deputies, have been additionally harm.
At 5:50 p.m., the McHenry Township Fire Protection District was known as to the 2500 block of West Huemann Drive in unincorporated McHenry Township for dogs combating and a person being injured. The McHenry County Sheriff’s workplace was additionally known as to the scene.
At the scene, first responders discovered 4 dogs – both pit bulls or pit bull mixes – combating over meals, in line with McHenry Township FPD Battalion Chief David Harwood.
The house owner was injured, as was a lady who might have been a neighbor and who had a canine chew on her decrease extremity, Harwood mentioned.
Both have been taken to Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital with non-life-threatening accidents, Harwood mentioned.
Meanwhile, the dogs broke free from first responders on the scene, Harwood mentioned. The fireplace division tried to make use of a hearth extinguisher on the canine, and Tasers have been additionally tried, he mentioned. But nothing labored.
The dogs additionally bit two McHenry County Sheriff’s deputies. One was handled on the scene, however was not taken to the hospital, whereas the opposite refused medical therapy.
“Everybody’s in search of the dogs, and worrying concerning the dogs on the free biting – as a result of that is what they’re recognized for right here,” mentioned witness Jerry O’Rourke, “and to date, it hasn’t been a really glad consequence.”
The sheriff’s workplace mentioned one of many dogs was shot and killed by a deputy, whereas one other escaped.
McHenry County Animal Control took the opposite two dogs.