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WATCH: Police use canoe to rescue dog stranded in North Carolina river

By Christina Kaemmerlen
May 22, 2016

Police in Gaston County, North Carolina, used a canoe to rescue a dog stranded in the middle of the South Fork of the Catawba River on Friday.

>> Click here to watch a video of the rescue

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