Officer saves dog trapped in fountain
Published: May 12, 2006
A police officer jumped in the Veterans Memorial Fountain at the town square to rescue a dog trapped in the water Monday.
“I guess he was warm and wanted a drink and fell over the edge,” Belleville Officer Tyrone Perry said.
The edge of the fountain was too high for the dog to escape. He was found perched on one of the submerged lights in effort to keep his head above water.
When Perry jumped into the fountain and lifted out the dog — a medium-sized, white dog with a bandana tied around his neck — the dog squirmed out of Perry’s grasp and ran west on West Main Street.
Perry said he has never had to rescue a dog from the fountain in the two years he has worked for the Belleville Police Department, although he often has had to pick up dogs shivering in the rain and take them to the Humane Society, he said.
Perry has, however, gotten quite a few people out of the fountain who were in there swimming illegally.
He only had to ask them to get out, he said.
“I never had to jump in to get them,” he said.
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