At 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 16th, firefighters from the Hesperia and Phelan Stations utilized technical rescue skills to rescue a dog from the California Aqueduct near the Baldy Mesa road overpass in Baldy Mesa.

An adult male shepherd mix, wet and exhausted but otherwise uninjured, was found by aqueduct personnel standing in the steel framework of a flow-control gate near that location. The crews lowered a rescuer to the dog via a ladder, where the rescuer corralled the dog and carried it to safety. It was not clear how long the dog had been in the water, nor was it wearing an identification tag. The dog was turned over to animal control personnel.
 

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