Easter Sunday, 2014. SMART received a call for a dog that had fallen over a cliff, 150 feet down in O'Melveny Park. The mile long trail (not service road) was a mere 4 feet wide and at some points 2 feet wide so driving the SMART rigs was not possible.
The person who located the dog was a video/photographer named Sean Rice. Since the location of the dog was not accessible by vehicle it was impossible to determine what equipment would be needed to attempt the technical rescue. As luck would have it, Sean had used a state of the art Drone with a GoPro attached to it and showed SMART the layout and location of where the dog was.
For the first time, a Drone (piloted by videographer Sean Rice) was used in animal rescue.
Nett, Hugh, Tami and Nav hiked up the steep path with a Stokes Basket (rescue stretcher) loaded with over 400 pounds of equipment. Exhausted and thirsty, the team then set up for a dual rappel. After both Tami and Nett reached the dog and placed it in a CMC K9 harness for transport, Hugh and Nav got busy setting up a raise system to bring them up the heavy brush hillside.
This 5 minute 14 second video highlights the rescue that took just over 5 hours on Easter Sunday, 2014. Thanks to the Drone provided by Sean Rice, locating and reaching the dog took half the battle out of the rescue.
The dog spent a month at the Los Angeles Animal Services West Valley shelter but no one came to claim him. Luck struck twice for this handsome Pitty because not only did he get rescued from a very dangerous predicament but he was adopted shortly after the production of this video.
SMART is constantly coming up with new techniques for rescuing animals. With the introduction to Drones, SMART continues pioneering the path for future Animal Rescue teams.
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