Firefighters with Extension Volunteer Fire Department put their rope rescue skills to work to retrieve a dog that fell over a cliff face this afternoon.

The incident happened shortly after noon on Thursday, Jan. 26, when a woman was walking the dog B次元官网网址� a chocolate Labrador, according firefighters who attended B次元官网网址� on the steep terrain of the Extension ridges south of Nanaimo.

Kevin Young, Extension VFD chief, said firefighters were called out to the 2100 block of Bramley Road at about 12:30 p.m.

B次元官网网址淭he dog went off a ledge on some slippery moss and fell about 35 feet down to a lower isolated ledge where it was more or less stranded, B次元官网网址渉e said. B次元官网网址淥ur crews managed to get in the area safe and, basically, devised a safe rescue for the canine and the outcome was positive.B次元官网网址�

Young categorized the operation as a B次元官网网址渓ow-angleB次元官网网址� rescue and fairly routine in nature. The dog was not injured and was reunited with the woman within about two hours.

B次元官网网址淲e donB次元官网网址檛 get a lot of those calls, so we like to help out where we can,B次元官网网址� the fire chief said.

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