News: World Trade Center rescue dog dies of cancer

Thursday, July 26, 2007

News: World Trade Center rescue dog dies of cancer

Jake, the 9/11 rescue dog
PHOTO CREDIT:Mary Flood / AP and of course Jake, the 9/11 rescue dog

News: World Trade Center rescue dog dies of cancer

PHOTO CREDIT:
Mary Flood / AP and of course Jake, the 9/11 rescue dog

NEW YORK (AP) - The Fire Rescue community is mourning the passing of Jake, the 9/11 rescue dog, Jake was adopted by Mary Flood as a 10-month-old puppy. He had been abandoned on a street with a broken leg and a dislocated hip. Flood eventually trained Jake to become one of fewer than 200 U.S. government-certified rescue dogs -- an animal on 24-hour call to tackle disasters such as building collapses, earthquakes, hurricanes and avalanches. The black Lab who burrowed through smoking debris at the World Trade Center site has died of cancer.

Jake had been wracked with pain and fever and Mary Flood had the 12-year-old put to sleep after one last walk through the fields and a swim in the creek near their home in Oakley, Utah.

No one can say whether the dog would have gotten sick if he hadn't been exposed to the toxic air in Lower Manhattan. But cancer in dogs Jake's age is common and so is premature death for Ground Zero rescue and recovery workers guess we will never know...

The Labrador also searched for survivors after Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007