Canine Wearing AirTag Rescued From Storm Water Drain by Firefighters: Report

Apple’s AirTag monitoring gadget is a useful software for retaining observe of your private belongings, however the tracker can also be utilized by folks to find their pets by attaching it to a collar, regardless that it was not designed for that function. Rescuers in California have now saved a canine after he ran away from his proprietor and entered a storm water drain earlier than being swept away. The canine was sporting an AirTag and a standard ID tag, in keeping with first responders.

While on a stroll, one-year-old Australian Shepherd Seamus ran away from his proprietor Emilie Brill and ran towards a drainage space. “He got away from me, and he just went down into this drainage. The water was going so fast I think all it took was one paw in that water and he was gone,” Brill advised ABC7. Thankfully, first responders had been shortly alerted to Seamus’ disappearance and rescue efforts had been quickly underway.

According to a video posted by the San Bernadino County Fire Department on January 18 detailing the trouble to rescue the canine, Seamus entered a flood management basin and was swept away in fast paced waters. Firefighters had been knowledgeable by an worker at a close-by leisure car (RV) facility that they’d seen a canine floating down the close by channel and heard it barking.

The video reveals that Seamus had managed to flee the fast-flowing water and was in an entry tube, when he was rescued by the firefighters, almost a mile (roughly 1.6kms) away from the place he entered the storm water drain.

The fortunate canine was then reunited with Brill after the crew dried him and warmed him within the fireplace engine earlier than they dropped him off at his home. 

“Seamus was equipped with both Apple AirTag & a conventional ID Tag which aided rescuers and owners in tracking the pup and reuniting them,” the hearth division acknowledged. It’s price noting that Apple beforehand acknowledged in an interview, that if folks need to use an AirTag to watch their pet’s location, they need to “make sure that their moving pet gets into range of a device in the Find My network”.