QW firefighters rescue dog from ice flow in Trent River

QW firefighters rescue dog from ice flow in Trent River

If one lucky Golden Labrador retriever could talk, he would be surely thanking Quinte West firefighters for their heroic rescue on New Year’s Day.

QW crews rescue man’s best friend

Quinte West Fire members were on the Trent River Wednesday, but is was far from a leisurely stop on the waterway. Around 11:15 a.m., members from Station 7 in Frankford responded to Rosebush Road and McGuire Lane, for a dog stuck on an ice flow Fire Chief John Whalen says crews wrote out a rescue plan, with one crew being deployed to the water, with another remaining on land Whalen says there were Good Samaritan’s considering entering the waterw…

InQuinte.ca | Dog rescued from ice floe in Quinte West

2025 began for the Quinte West Fire Department with a successsful rescue of a dog that was trapped on the ice. Crews from Frankford Station 7 responded to a call about a dog on the Trent River stuck on an ice floe in the area of Rosebush Road and McGuire Lane at 11:20 am on Wednesday. After they arrived and assessed the situation, they drew up and executed a rescue plan which involved two Firefighters entering the water in a boat with a backup t…