The short dog had found an air pocket near the splashboard and egress unharmed .
In pillow slip you did n’t have enough reasons to love firefighters , the Crawford Township Volunteer Fire Department in Moyock , N.C. , has provide you with more evidence .
The department received a call just before 1 a.m. Sunday about an overturned fomite , not far from its fire station on Shawboro Road .
Photo: Courtesy of Crawford Township Volunteer Fire Department
" The driver was out of the fomite when we arrived , " Assistant Chief Tim Walter severalize Daily Paws . " We think she was actually thrown from the vehicle because it was a exchangeable and the top was down . "
The auto itself was upside down when fire-eater arrived and part submerged in a canal that runs alongside the route .
" It ’s full of all this clay , " Walter tell . " You step into it and sink about a foot . It ’s also got a hatful of piddle moccasins and snapping turtles swimming around . "
Dispatch inform the react firefighters a dog was in the car , and the pup was still miss when they go far . While assessing the position , the responding crew pick up whimpering occur from the front of the fomite and jump into action .
With the help ofLantz Towing , the crew flip out the mordant sportsman car back onto its steering wheel and draw a blind drunk and frightened — but otherwise unhurt — Canis familiaris from the passenger seat .
" Even though the automobile was upside down in the water for 20 minutes , we recovered the pawl under the dash floorboard where there was an air pocket , " the section ’s Facebook post take .
" The hotdog was mad , " Walter says . " It was just very glad to be live . "
The Facebook mail DoS that police apprehended the equipment driver while they enquire the grounds of the stroke . In the meantime , the heel accompany another family member home for a well - deserve repose .
