FOR TWO L.A. FIREFIGHTERS, IT WAS A DOG-SAVE AFTERNOON.Byline: Daily News Four puppies trapped for two days between the walls of two North Hollywood businesses were rescued Friday afternoon by Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. firefighters. Firefighters Jamie Heald n. 1. A heddle. and Mark Demott wedged wedged - 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning. If the system is wedged, it is trying to do something but cannot make progress; it may be capable of doing a few themselves in the one-foot gap between California Engine and the wall of the adjacent business in the 7400 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). . They cut away a 4-foot-tall chain-link fence that had been installed between two walls, then used a sling sling (sling) a bandage or suspensory for supporting a part. mandibular sling a structure suspending the mandible, formed by the medial pterygoid and masseter muscles and aiding in - noose on the end of a pole - to fish out the 4-week-old, shepherd-mix puppies, a department spokeswoman said. ``The puppies are said to be in good condition, wagging their tails, acting all puppylike,'' said Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Melissa Kelley, adding that their mother was a guard dog at a nearby auto shop. Officials with the Department of Animal Services took the pups in for further observation. It was unknown how the puppies got trapped, but California Engine owner John Calefacto said he called the Fire Department when he heard howling. `The poor (puppies) were screaming so much, it grabbed at the heart,'' he said. ``The firefighters were very good.'' CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. firefighters Jamie Heald and Mark Derott, above, hold all four puppies that they rescued, right, in North Hollywood on Friday. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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