Challenging dog rescue made more dangerous after BC government denies use of helicopter

Search and rescue was called this week after a dog got itself into trouble along the Cheakamus River near Squamish, B.C. Brian Messer, his wife Andrea, and their dog Maverick were climbing along the Star Chek Trail when Maverick decided to go exploring. Messer said Maverick was off-leash and went down an embankment toward the river and somehow got sucked in by the current. “So we didn’t see this happen,” he said. “We only saw the aftermath. So when he didn’t come back on the recall, we went down and saw him in the water kind of way down ways.” And as Kristen Robinson reports, the situation was made much more perilous by the absence of a key piece of equipment -- a helicopter, that rescuers say the B.C. government did not let them use. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/10711769/squamish-search-rescue-helicopter-dog-request/ Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on X HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB #GlobalNews #bc #animals #animalrescue