Thermal Drone Pulls Injured Dog From Oregon Pond

A dog named Sweetie spent the night alone, injured, and hidden in a freezing retention pond. A drone found her in minutes. This is exactly why DFR programs exist, as Oregon Live reports.

Sweetie’s Long Night in Happy Valley

The call came in around noon on Friday.

A dog had slipped through a fence near a retention pond in Happy Valley, Oregon, and vanished into a wall of blackberry bushes, cattails, and thick mud. Clackamas County sheriff’s deputies searched for hours, until 8:30 p.m. and found nothing. The vegetation was just too dense. The dog was invisible.

They came back Saturday morning with a different tool…

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