Two dogs trapped in a hot car in Georgia for over an hour were rescued by Roswell City police on Sunday, July 2, and bodycam footage captured of their rescue, released on Thursday, July 6.
Police said they received a tip from a passerby who saw the dogs in the car and became alarmed.
In the video, a policeman can be seen taking the temperature of the car, which at one point registers at 167 degrees.
One of the dogs had a seizure from heatstroke after being removed from the car.
“I think we got here just in time to save these animals’ lives,” the policeman wearing the bodycam says in the video.
One of the dogs became aggressive when police tried to remove it from the car and had to be removed with a catch pole. Hearing the dog in distress, another dog that had been hiding under the front seat to avoid direct sunlight emerged, Roswell police said.
After they sent an emergency page throughout a local movie theater, the owner came out and saw Roswell City firefighters trying to cool the dogs off.
Apparently unaware of what had been happening, a woman in the video, who appeared to be the dogs’ owner, asks a fireman what happened to her dog.
“He was left in a hot car,” the fireman responded.
The owner was charged with two counts of animal cruelty.
The dogs were given a clean bill of health and discharged from an animal hospital later that day, but were taken by Fulton County animal control as evidence.
By Holly Kellum for NTD Television
