Update: Experts say that an adult can be knocked over in as little as six inches of moving water. A man not part of the rescue team jumped in and tried to rescue the dog, but he then needed rescuing.
Firefighters are attempting to rescue a dog from the Los Angeles River Monday in the San Fernando Valley after a morning ofLos Angeles Fire Department units set up multiple rescue points along the Los Angeles River after reports of a woman and her dog in the water near the Sepulveda Dam. The woman was rescued, but crews are still trying to rescue the dog as it drifts south in the river channel through the San Fernando Valley.
A Los Angeles Fire Department rescuer was lowered into the water from a helicopter, but the dog wiggled from the rescuer's grasp. Downstream in Studio City, a man jumped into the water and clutched on to the dog as they drifted down the river. He lost his grip on the dog as he was plucked from the water by an LAFD helicopter rescue team.
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