Watch Firefighters Rescue This Dog Wearing an AirTag From a Storm Drain

Apple’s AirTag monitoring system is a useful software for conserving monitor of your private belongings, however the tracker can be utilized by folks to find their pets by attaching it to a collar, though it was not designed for that objective. 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 keeping 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 acquired 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 rapidly alerted to Seamus’ disappearance and rescue efforts had been quickly underway.

In keeping with a video posted by the San Bernadino County Fireplace 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 car (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 outfitted with each Apple AirTag & a traditional ID Tag which aided rescuers and homeowners in monitoring the pup and reuniting them,” the fireplace division said. It is value noting that Apple beforehand said in an interview, that if folks need to use an AirTag to watch their pet’s location, they need to “make it possible for their transferring pet will get into vary of a tool within the Discover My community”.