These gents from the Dover and Rossville fire departments in Kansas are awesome. Watch as they launched a rescue operation for a pup named Oskie stranded in the middle of the icy Kansas River:
The dog's hoomans said they were walking Oskie when she decided to bolt onto the ice for fun. She only got about 20 feet before she fell through the unstable ice, but managed to get to a thicker chunk farther out in the river.
"She loved the snow and she thought it was solid ice, and it was not," said one owner. "There's no way we would have been able to make it out there."
Two firefighters trained in ice rescues tied ropes around themselves and waded into the river for half an hour to secure her and get her to shore.
"When you talk about pets, they're members of our family," said Dover Fire Chief Dirk Christian. "We'd go out there for a whitetail deer. It's the way we do it - as long as we can do it safe; as long as we can manage the risk and we've got the right personnel, and the right equipment, and we got time on our side."
