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Dog rescued after falling down 50-foot mine shaft while tracking mountain lion

By Natalie Dreier, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
June 7, 2018

Rescuers had to be lowered down an abandoned mine shaft to save a dog that tumbled in while tracking a mountain lion.

The members of El Dorado County Professional Firefighters IAFF Local 3556 had to be lowered into what they first thought was a well, but turned out to be a mine shaft, to retrieve the dog on Tuesday, KOVR reported.

The dog had been hunting a mountain lion that had been killing goats in Camino, California, KOVR reported.

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The shaft was only about 6 feet wide, firefighters said in a Facebook post.

The dog was not hurt.

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