Watch Firefighters Rescue This Canine Carrying an AirTag From a Storm Drain

Apple’s AirTag monitoring gadget is a useful instrument for protecting monitor of your private belongings, however the tracker can also be utilized by folks to find their pets by attaching it to a collar, although it was not designed for that function. Rescuers in California have now saved a canine after he ran away from his proprietor and entered a storm water drain earlier than being swept away. The canine was carrying an AirTag and a traditional ID tag, in line with first responders.

Whereas on a stroll, one-year-old Australian Shepherd Seamus ran away from his proprietor Emilie Brill and ran towards a drainage space. “He received away from me, and he simply went down into this drainage. The water was going so quick I believe all it took was one paw in that water and he was gone,” Brill told ABC7. Fortunately, first responders had been shortly alerted to Seamus’ disappearance and rescue efforts had been quickly underway.

In response to a video posted by the San Bernadino County Hearth Division on January 18 detailing the trouble to rescue the canine, Seamus entered a flood management basin and was swept away in fast-paced waters. Firefighters had been knowledgeable by an worker at a close-by leisure automobile (RV) facility that they’d seen a canine floating down the close by channel and heard it barking.

The video reveals that Seamus had managed to flee the fast-flowing water and was in an entry tube, when he was rescued by the firefighters, practically a mile (roughly 1.6kms) away from the place he entered the storm water drain.

The fortunate canine was then reunited with Brill after the crew dried him and warmed him within the hearth engine earlier than they dropped him off at his home. 

“Seamus was geared up with each Apple AirTag & a traditional ID Tag which aided rescuers and homeowners in monitoring the pup and reuniting them,” the hearth division acknowledged. It is value noting that Apple beforehand acknowledged in an interview, that if folks wish to use an AirTag to watch their pet’s location, they need to “guarantee that their shifting pet will get into vary of a tool within the Discover My community”.