OAK PARK (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Firefighters in Oak Park rescued a small dog Tuesday after it apparently fell through an opening on a second- floor apartment wall.
Oak Park firefighter Randall Antos was credited as the primary dog rescuer. He said he and his crew didn’t know what to expect when they responded.
“We got called for a ‘special duty’ or ‘special detail,' and it’s a very vague call when it comes in, so, as we were going down into the rig, we didn’t know what was on our CAD computer. And, our lieutenant had said it was a dog stuck between a wall,” Antos said
They arrived to find that a man had been renovating his second-floor apartment. He had cut a hole to do some plumbing work, and his deaf and blind Miniature Pinscher fell through that hole, landing between a wall on the first floor.
“When we first encountered the gentleman, he was pretty distraught, you could tell right away. He said this dog was his baby, he had the dog for years,” Antos said.
After consoling the man, up next was convincing the downstairs neighbor to let firefighters poke a hole in her tiled bathroom wall.
“The unit owner was like, ‘You’re not ripping up my bathroom, you’re not making holes in my wall,” said Antos.
She soon relented, and, chipping away at the tile with a hammer and a pry bar, Firefighter Antos was soon able to reach through the soft drywall. All in all, he told WBBM that the rescue took about ten minutes, sharing that he never even learned the dog’s name.
“As soon as I got the dog out of the hole, I was carrying it through the first- floor apartment, and the dog owner whisked it out of my hands, gave us some fist bumps, thanked us immensely and that was the end of what we saw of him,” Antos said.
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