**Story updated at 10:51 p.m. on Monday**
There was a large rescue operation in the Kennebecasis River on Monday night after a man and his dog became trapped on a rock face on Long Island.
Division Chief Mike Boyle of the Kennebecasis Valley Fire Department says they were dispatched to the island shortly before 5 p.m.
Boyle tells us the man was out hiking with his dog when the animal fell onto a ledge below.
“When he tried to rescue the dog, then he actually fell himself,” says Boyle.
Boyle says the pair were trapped on the Minister’s Face rock face — about 75 feet above the water — so crews in boats couldn’t reach them.
Rescue from above
That’s when they decided to call in the Saint John Fire Department’s high-angle rescue team.
“Them, along with members from our department and from the Kingston Peninsula Fire Department, they hiked a trail to get above where he was located,” says Boyle, “and then Saint John firefighters lowered themselves down and brought them back up.”
The rescue was made shortly before 9 p.m. Monday — about four hours after the call came in.
Boyle says the man wasn’t hurt but his dog was taken to the vet with some injuries.
“I think he might’ve injured his leg or his paw,” he says. “It was enough that he had to go to the vet, he couldn’t walk, but I don’t know anything beyond that.”
The Canadian Coast Guard also responded with a boat and paramedics from Ambulance NB were on standby.
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