{"id":301750,"date":"2026-05-20T18:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/301750\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:45:26","slug":"crews-in-dallas-rescue-nearly-200-pound-dog-from-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/301750\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews in Dallas Rescue Nearly 200-Pound Dog From Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crews with Dallas Fire-Rescue recently saved a nearly 200-pound dog after she fell into an underground cistern in northwest Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas Fire-Rescue released this footage showing a firefighter squeezing into the hole to rescue the huge dog. According to local news outlet <a data-ylk=\"slk:WFAA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/news\/local\/heres-how-dallas-fire-rescue-saved-a-nearly-200-pound-dog-from-a-12-inch-hole\/287-ad537084-880c-44f3-ae67-24c9038887b0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WFAA<\/a>, the pooch, a bullmastiff named Violet, fell into a defunct septic tank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WFAA reported that Violet was walking in an empty lot next to her owner\u2019s home when her hind legs got caught in a 12-inch hole and her entire body slid in.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cEven I was shocked walking up to this little hole, and inside you saw the giant head of a dog in it,\u201d Battalion Chief Charlie Abney told WFAA. \u201cIt was definitely the biggest dog I\u2019ve ever seen. She looked almost like a very large hog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crews dug a hole around the dog to create enough room for a firefighter to lift her out. With the help of about seven people, firefighters were eventually able to get straps under Violet and hoist her high enough to get her out of the hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhen she jumped out, it was a very happy moment for the dog and the homeowners and they went back to normal life,\u201d Abney told WFAA. Credit: Dallas Fire-Rescue via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews with Dallas Fire-Rescue recently saved a nearly 200-pound dog after she fell into an underground cistern in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,9379,104,103,2526,17726,109558,126],"class_list":["post-301750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-fire-rescue","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dog","tag-northwest-dallas","tag-underground-cistern","tag-wfaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}