First responders adopt dogs they helped rescue from Wisconsin plane crash

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First responders adopt dogs they helped rescue from Wisconsin plane crash

The plane was carrying 53 shelter dogs when it crash-landed onto a golf course.


https://abcnews.go.com/US/responders-adopt-dogs-helped-rescue-wisconsin-plane-crash/story?id=93614847



By Meredith Deliso November 19, 2022, 2:34 PM

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The large twin-engine aircraft, which was transporting the dogs to shelters in southeastern Wisconsin from Louisiana, crashed on the golf course at the Western Lakes Golf Club in Pewaukee on Tuesday.


Three people and 53 dogs on board all survived, with some of the animals suffering minor injuries like bumps and scrapes. The three people were transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.

In the days following the crash, several first responders who worked the scene have adopted the dogs they helped rescue.

"As soon as I found out all of them were okay, my first thought was that, one of them is coming home with me. So this is my little Lucky," Elle Steitzer, a firefighter and EMT at Lake Country Fire Rescue, told ABC Milwaukee affiliate WISN while cradling her new puppy.
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"We have never had something quite like this happen before," Deswarte said. "It was a miracle that everybody really was OK."
Matthew Haerter, assistant chief at Lake Country Fire and Rescue, commended the pilot during what he described as a "relatively catastrophic landing." The plane went through trees, losing both its wings, before it belly-landed on the course..........................................





PHOTO: A plane transporting over 50 dogs to shelters in crash-landed at the Western Lakes Golf Club in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, Nov. 15, 2022.