SEQUIM — A 90-pound chocolate lab has been rescued from the side of a cliff near Sequim by a Clallam County Search and Rescue technical rope team.
A family vacationing at a residence on Tyler View Drive northwest of Sequim reported that two of their dogs had fallen off the edge of the bluff Sunday and were stuck on a sandy ledge about 30 feet from the top, Clallam County Sheriff’s Sgt. Lyman Moores said.
One of the dogs was able to climb to safety.
Rope team members Josh Winters and Kelly Thompson were lowered over the side of the cliff by their fellow search-and-rescue team members to retrieve the second dog.
Winters and Thompson placed the lab in a specialty dog harness.
The dog was hoisted to the top of the bluff and returned to its owner, Moores said.
The name of the dog was not immediately available Monday.
Clallam County Search and Rescue is a volunteer division of the Sheriff’s Office that responds to emergency urban or wilderness search-and-rescue calls 24 hours a day.
Its members train in many areas of rescue work, including search, radio communication, navigation, tracking, emergency medicine, technical rescue and water rescue, Moores said.
Anyone interested in becoming a Search and Rescue team member should contact the Sheriff’s Office in person or fill out a volunteer application at www.clallam.net/sheriff.
