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 damage.
At 5:50 p.m., the McHenry Township Fire Protection District was referred to as to the 2500 block of West Huemann Drive in unincorporated McHenry Township for dogs preventing and a person being injured. The McHenry County Sheriff’s workplace was additionally referred to as to the scene.
At the scene, first responders discovered 4 dogs – both pit bulls or pit bull mixes – preventing over meals, in accordance with McHenry Township FPD Battalion Chief David Harwood.
The home-owner was injured, as was a lady who might have been a neighbor and who had a canine chunk on her decrease extremity, Harwood stated.
Both have been taken to Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital with non-life-threatening accidents, Harwood stated.
Meanwhile, the dogs broke free from first responders on the scene, Harwood stated. The hearth division tried to make use of a fireplace extinguisher on the canine, and Tasers have been additionally tried, he stated. 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 on the lookout for the dogs, and worrying in regards to the dogs on the free biting – as a result of that is what they’re identified for right here,” stated witness Jerry O’Rourke, “and to this point, it hasn’t been a really completely happy end result.”
The sheriff’s workplace stated one of many dogs was shot and killed by a deputy, whereas one other escaped.
McHenry County Animal Control took the opposite two dogs.
