A struggling dog was pulled out of an icy river on New Year's Eve after quick action by Coast Guard rescue team.
DETROIT — On the last day of 2022, a Coast Guard operation near Belle Isle in DetroitNormally, the Detroit sector of the Coast Guard sends out a five-man team in a truck to patrol the shoreline and check ice conditions to make sure people aren't in harm's way. But on this day, just after noon, the victim was a small white dog with a distinctive black eye patch who had fallen into the Detroit River.
"We don't usually launch for them," explained Ensign Adeeb Ahmad, a spokesman."But since we were out and about, we helped." That meant sending one member of the crew from the Belle Isle Station — 22-year-old Petty Officer Cole Harper — out onto the thin ice near Grayhaven Island to pull the struggling dog out of the frigid water.
Wearing a dry suit and tethered to the rest of the team by a rope, Harper approached the dog, lifted it out of the water and held on as they were pulled back to safety.
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