Shaggy Dog Story

Six hunting dogs, trapped at 1800 meters altitude since Sunday on the Plateau de Sous Dine in the Haute-Savoie were rescued by helicopter today in an operation involving 4 members of the fire-mountain rescue service.

Informed of the dog’s whereabouts on Sunday the rescue services were unable to start operations due to the poor weather.  The dramatic rescue took 5 hours in difficult conditions.  The dogs seemed well after their adventure but were checked over by a vet.  Given that mountain rescue is no longer free in much of France we hope that the dogs were properly insured.

Posted by davidof on Tuesday, 23 December, 2003 at 08:41 PM

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