FYI, the dog bit the firefighter's hand. I just saw the presser with the firefighter, who had just been released from the hospital. He had an enormous cast on his hand and thumb.
They deployed a helicopter, 50 firefighters, and numerous other vehicles for an hour. That's a lot of cash and pain to swoop up a dog, IMHO.
The training argument doesn't hold water with me. However, a little more plausible explanation, given by the firefighters, was that they wanted to rescue the dog before an untrained human would go down there and try to do it.
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