LONG GROVE (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - A Long Grove woman is grateful for the firefighters who responded to her 911 call after her dog fell through thin ice on a pond last Friday.
"Unfortunately, I thought for a minute that I was going to just watch her die in front of my eyes,” the dog’s owner, Roseanne, said.
The dog is a 7-year-old, 120 pound Great Pyrenees named Belle.
"I heard really high-pitched screaming. I thought, 'Oh that doesn't sound good.' So, I went to find her to see what was going on, and that's when I looked out the back window, and I saw her treading water in the middle of the pond,” Roseanne told CBS-2.
She couldn’t get to the dog.
"It's all like quicksand there. You can't walk in it,” Roseanne added.
She called 911.
A firefighter suited up and got to the dog and brought her to shore. She had been in the water for about 30 minutes.
"If it wasn't for the fireman and their skills and their compassion, she would have been a goner," said Roseanne.
She brought the dog to the firehouse Tuesday for a visit with her rescuers.
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