A man who fell from his wheelchair into a lake was saved from drowning by his little beagle

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A man who fell from his wheelchair into a lake was saved from drowning by his little beagle

In 2022, Eighty-one-year-old Harry Smith—who uses an electric wheelchair—was walking his beloved nine-year-old beagle mix, Sarah Jane, near a lake in Port St. Lucie, Florida when the pleasant jaunt took a turn for the worse.Smith says that the left wheel of the chair “grabbed and spun me” and he wound up rolling down a grass embankment into the water. Smith can’t swim, could barely keep his head above the water and without immediate help would h…