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Firefighter Rappels Down Waterfall To Save Stray Dog

For a Paterson, New Jersey firefighter, the call of duty didn’t come from a fire this time, it was a stray dog at the base of the Great Falls waterfall.  Fire Captain Scott Parkin bravely rappelled down the falls to rescue the dog, who has now been named Paterson.

"My main concern was just getting down safely, okay," Scott told Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh in a live video streamed over the mayor's Facebook page Sunday.  "I really wasn't worried about the ascent, because I knew all our equipment that my crew, Rescue 2, had set up prior to me going over the edge was rock solid."

And this canine rescue is the second time a member of Parkin’s family has done the good deed.  He says his dad did the same type of rescue for a dog, in the same area, back in 1975.  “So I’m kind of repeating family history,” he says, “which is kind of cool.”


Source: New Jersey.com


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