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Wichita fire crews stage dramatic rescue to save trapped dog in creek (Wichita Eagle)
the whole lengthy story with the happy ending at link aboveThe rescue of Taz the dog from floodwaters on Thursday encompassed despair, scuba gear, tears of grief, concrete saws, tears of joy, sledge hammers, about 20 of Wichita’s most highly trained heavy rescue firefighters, eight fire trucks, goodness knows how many tax dollars, and two news conferences.
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Firefighters carried out one of the most dramatic rescues in recent memory. It started about 10:30 a.m. when John Huy, 79, a retired aviation engineer, took a walk in the rain with Taz, a 6-year-old mutt that Huy describes as “part pit, part lab, and part I-don’t-know-what.”
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But after a long time, and under the gaze of news cameras, [Captain Michael] Wells called a news conference, to tell the somber news: Taz had disappeared, possibly never to be found.
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[Then, the] news conference was interrupted when firefighter Larry Inlow saw, through a tiny hole in concrete, the wet nostrils of a dog trying desperately to stay alive.
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