A heartwarming video shows the emotional moment a woman cuddles her mischievous dog after it spent seven hours trapped in a sewer pipe.
Spike the Jack Russell went missing at around 3pm on Thursday in his owners’ back garden in Buckfastleigh, Devon.
After a search, they discovered that the pup could be heard barking from a sewer pipe and called the fire brigade.
Teams from Buckfastleigh Fire Station and Newton Abbott Fire Station soon arrived after being diverted from an exercise on South Devon Railway.
After deploying their ‘snake eye’ camera to locate Spike within the 100m pipe network, amazingly the teams eventually found Spike wedged 45 meters from the pipe’s entrance.
Woman reunited with Jack Russell after 7-hour sewer pipe ordeal
A video shows the moment the team managed to coax Spike into crawling backwards down the pipe, before eventually being pulled out by the team.
A spokesperson for Buckfastleigh Fire Station said: ‘On arrival we were met by Spike’s owners who said he had been missing from his garden since about 3pm and when searching they could hear him barking in the pipe.
‘The officer in charge asked for our colleagues from Newton Abbot Fire Station to join us so we could utilise their snake eye camera to try and get a visual of how far and in which pipe he was stuck.
Video shows emotional moment a woman was reunited with her dog after it spent seven hours trapped in a sewer pipe
Spike the Jack Russell went missing at around 3pm on Thursday in his owners’ back garden in Buckfastleigh, Devon
Teams from Buckfastleigh Fire Station and Newton Abbott Fire Station soon arrived after being diverted from an exercise on South Devon Railway
After a search, they discovered that the pup could be heard barking from a sewer pipe and called the fire brigade
A video shows the moment the team managed to coax Spike into crawling backwards down the pipe, before eventually being pulled out by the team
‘The pipe system was approximately 100m long with many pipes joining at different points.
‘Having put the camera down all the possible entry points and dug an inspection trench we found one more inspection pit in the middle of the field and it was here where we managed to see Spike wedged within the pipe about 45m from the pit entrance.
‘Luckily spike saw the light on the end of the camera as his way out in the dark and with some coaxing from his owners slowly but surely managed in inch his way backwards until he was able to be grabbed.
‘Spike was unharmed after being trapped for over seven hours, a bit smelly and tired from his adventure but back with his family.’