A team from the Padang City Fire Department rescued a dog that was trapped on the exterior wall of a police dormitory.

Footage from December 5 shows firefighters tying a rope around the canine's neck before slowly dragging him onto a balcony.

The rescue operation lasted around 30 minutes and the stray pooch was set free.

Padang Sutan City Fire Chief Hendra said: "The evacuation started with reports from local people seeing that the stray dog ​​was above the ventilation and could not get down, because there was no road and it was high.

"Until now it is not known why the dog was able to be above that."

This is how the heroic team of the Padang City Fire Department evacuated a stray dog ​​that was trapped above a vent on the 2nd floor of a police dormitory with a height of approximately 4 meters, in Padang City, West Sumatra Province, Indonesia, (5 December 2022).

officers tried to make a connecting bridge between the vents for the dog to be pulled for evacuation. the evacuation of stray dogs lasted approximately 30 minutes.

Padang Sutan City Fire Chief Hendra said "the evacuation started with reports from local people seeing that the stray dog ​​was above the ventilation and could not get down, because there was no road and it was high, until now it is not known why the dog was able to be above that,".

after being successfully evacuated, the wild dog was released again.