District of Columbia fireboats and police harbor units were dispatched after a report of a dog spotted swimming in the Washington Channel on Tuesday.
According to a social media post on Twitter, a fireboat spotted the dog swimming near Haines Point. Officials explained that first responders had been able to safely rescue the dog from the water and reunite him with his owner.
There’s never enough good news to share, so many thanks to our big hearted rescuers again and again.
for saving a fellow pooch from the river. Thank goodness you were in the channel and not at Georgetown. Now if you could only stop the people waking our boat and almost making us fall in…. #swdc
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