Dog rescued from icy water

Cameras were rolling in Salina on Tuesday night as an animal control officer and a teenage boy, tried to rescue a dog from an icy pond. And during the process they fell in too.

Trapped in the icy pond, unable to pull himself out, Porter, the black labrador was struggling just to keep his head above water. "His eyes and he was crying and I just couldn't let him drown out there in front of me," said Gabe Siem the dog’s owner.



In an attempt to save his dog, Siem, had already fallen into the water three times by the time emergency crews responded to a 9-1-1 call.

Once on the scene, Jane Trostle, an animal control officer, and Siem tried to rescue Porter using a tree branch, but both ended up falling in themselves.



Trostle volunteered to go back onto the ice — and even into the water, if necessary. She did, and it was. As soon as she reached out to Porter, the ice cracked and she fell back in.

“He came right to me, though. I think he knew I was there to help him,” Trostle said. With no small amount of difficulty, she and Porter were able to struggle back to shore.