Retired Miami cop, neighbor jumps into SW Miami-Dade Canal to rescue 2 huskies – WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports

SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) – A retired Miami city police officer said he didn’t hesitate when he and a neighbor jumped into a Southwest Miami-Dade canal to rescue two huskies who were fighting in the water.

Cell phone video captured the dogs in distress in the 3300 block area of ​​Southwest 117th Avenue around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

“Tascha, Tascha!” one hears a woman say when she called one of the canines who couldn’t get out of the canal.

Pablo Arzola said he heard the noise behind his house and ran outside.

“There were people in that back yard yelling and pointing at the dogs, ‘Oh, they’re going to drown, they’re going to drown,'” he said.

The next step for Arzola was figuring out how to reach the huskies.

“I was like, ‘How do we get these dogs out of here?’ There was no way up, and it was a full five foot climb, ”he said.

Arzola, also a former Marine, began looking for a solution.

“I was like, ‘Either we jump now or it won’t happen,'” he said.

The video showed Arzola and his neighbors jumping into the canal.

Arzola said he didn’t really think of other creatures that were also in the water.

The video showed an alligator swimming nearby.

“No, I thought to myself, with all the excitement we were causing, we’d probably scare them,” he said.

Arzola said he was focused on a mission.

“Get these dogs to safety no matter what I have to do,” he said.

With the help of other neighbors along the canal, the residents were able to bring the dogs to safety.

The incident struck Arzola very closely. He said he has three huskies of his own.

“These dogs are like a child in need to me,” he said. “I’m in the water to do what I have to do.”

This is not the first dog rescue from Arzola. Earlier this year, he said, he rescued a Doberman from a burning house.

Arzola later posted the rescue video on social media on Wednesday. It got a lot of users to name him and his neighbor heroes.

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