Firefighters Save Dog From 50-Foot Mine Shaft
EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) — An unusual rescue sent an El Dorado County Fire Protection District crew down a 100-year-old mine shaft in the Camino foothills.
Even in Gold Country, this was a first.
Firefighters were called to the rescue after a U.S. Department of Agriculture tracker, looking for a mountain lion reportedly attacking livestock, lost one of his tracking dogs, then discovered it using a GPS collar, underground, in a hole, down a mineshaft.
“Yeah, GPS attached to it. He got
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