CLEVELAND (WJW) – Clevelanders heading home on the Jennings Freeway Wednesday night were alarmed to see a small dog running loose on the highway.
Heather Hutchins was part of a group of drivers who put on their hazard lights to slow down traffic behind them and then attempted to coax the dog out of harm’s way.
“It was very scary, very scary for that poor dog,” said Hutchins. “I knew that I couldn’t just leave. I had to stay there. I had to make sure that we got him to a safe place.”
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Cleveland EMS Captain Daniel Nemeth heard a call from paramedics in a squad about traffic backed up on the Jennings. He thought there had been an accident, so he headed that way.
“When I got there, I looked over to one of the bystanders in her car. This lady was just frantic, you could see it on her face, like something bad was going to happen,” Captain Nemeth said.
When Nemeth spotted the dog, he and his paramedics decided to use their vehicles to form a rolling roadblock to keep the pup away from oncoming traffic.