Dog runs 4 miles to find help after owner drives over Oregon cliff, spends night trapped in ravine
Talk about man’s best friend.
A loyal pooch ran four miles through the Oregon wilderness to find help for its injured owner — who spent the night stranded after driving off a steep cliff into a ravine.
Brandon Garrett’s dog arrived at a Baker County campsite around 9:30 a.m. Monday to alert his anxious family to the trouble, the county sheriff said.
They immediately launched a search party, finding his truck lying on its side at the edge of a creek several hundred feet off a roadside cliff.
Another one of Garrett’s four dogs was standing watch over the truck, officials said.
Unable to reach the crash zone themselves, the family called for a rescue team.
“Sheriff Ash arrived and located the vehicle, along with a dog, in the steep, brushy ravine. As he was looking for an access point to the creek, he heard a subject yell for help,” the Baker County sheriff’s office said.
Garrett had managed to crawl 100 hundred yards away from the vehicle after failing “to negotiate a curve causing the vehicle to plummet off the embankment,” according to officials.
Too injured to climb the steep cliffside himself, Garrett was forced to spend the night in the bushy ravine waiting for his faithful furry friend to find help.
Rescue crews used a “highline rope system” to safely carry Garrett out of the ravine before loading him into a helicopter and rushing to a local hospital.
His condition was not available, but officials confirmed that all four of his dogs survived the terrifying incident.
