A Sad Story from Texas of Loyalty and Loss

[Bill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpwwjKmgQsQ

They're hunting with their dog, dog falls into an uncovered cistern, one guy jumps in to save the dog, second person jumps in to save 1st guy and the dog, then 3rd person jumps in to save the first two. All overcome by fumes and drown.

3 dead plus the dog.

:sadangel:

[Steve_R]

Very sad but very stupid.

[Onebadcad]

So damn sad!!
I would do anything for my dogs, ignoring what may be an underestimated peril.

[Steve_R]

So damn sad!!
I would do anything for my dogs, ignoring what may be an underestimated peril.

I would do almost anything but die for a pet. I've been involved in enough underground tank/cistern removals to know they're a death trap. This story isn't unusual where several people enter one to rescue someone else and they all end up dead.

[Bill]

I would do almost anything but die for a pet. I've been involved in enough underground tank/cistern removals to know they're a death trap. This story isn't unusual where several people enter one to rescue someone else and they all end up dead.

I agree. The chemical plants have very intensive training about confined space entry and insist on a myriad of safety measures for this very reason. It's instinctual to want to go in and save someone without the proper equipment to do so, and I doubt the people trying to save their dog, and each other, considered that fumes would create a low oxygen situation and would result in them all perishing. Still, in the heat of the moment, I understand how and why they did it.

[Burro (He/Haw)]

That story is gonna make someone’s LMS Confined Space training.

[Torqaholic]

Rescued a dog from the center of a large frozen pond once. Wasn't even my dog. Crawled out to it on a pair of long 2x4's. That supported my weight but once I got out there the only way to get the dog up onto the ice was to jump in myself. Lucky for me the water was only waist deep. Didn't take long to commit, the dog was nearly finished. Getting back onto the boards was a no-go. Had to break ice all the way to shore which was half a mile from the nearest heated shelter. Barely made it, legs were cramping. Would do it again though. Was a great adventure.

But a cistern? No freaking way. I have a huge one under my house. I suppose they collected rainwater in it prior to running water being installed. Probably 10,000 gallons in size with a few feet of water and large rocks in the bottom. Couldn't pay me enough to climb down in that thing.