Dog Has New Best Friend After Offaly Rescue

Photo courtesy of Offaly Fire and Rescue Service

Bru fell down an abandoned well in Birr.

A Bernese Mountain Dog has been rescued from an abandoned well, close to Birr Castle in County Offaly. 

Three year old 'Bru' was out for a walk with his owner when disaster struck, and he slipped into a 10-metre hole, covered with grass. 

A specially trained unit from Laois Fire and Rescue Service assisted their Offaly Fire and Rescue colleagues, in a three-hour operation to hoist him safely back out. 

Keith Lewis from the Laois confined space rescue team was the man who first put hand to paw.... but he says it was a team effort. 

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