Man, Dog Rescued From River
254 views · Published 20 February 2014 · 2:10 · Indexed 24 October 2026
Channel: WLOS News 13 · 2014 · News & Politics
A dog gets trapped in a dangerous logjam on the French Broad River and his owner goes in to save him. It happened in the Penrose Community of Transylvania County. John Wayne Hardison is a tree service company owner and was checking out the logjam for a bid to remove it. He says his dog fell off the bank into the water and became tangled in the debris. He walked along tree trunks in the river to reach the dog, got in the water and used a limb to pull the dog to him. Hardison says he decided not to fight the current, so he called 911. The Little River Swiftwater Rescue Crew rescued him and his dog with a motorized pontoon boat. The two were not injured. News 13 first showed the logjam Tuesday in a story that reported how dangerous logjams can be, and that commissioners have appropriated $20,000 to remove them. _______________ Follow WLOS on social media: WLOS ABC 13 News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/News13/ WLOS ABC 13 News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WLOS_13 WLOS ABC 13 News on Instagram: https://instagram.com/wlos_13 Subscribe to WLOS on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ABC13Channel/?sub_confirmation=1 Listen to AnchorMOMS, the Podcast: https://wlos.com/news/anchormoms/anchormoms-the-podcast Watch more top local news stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8Ge6UXHJs&list=PLkVbaoT-aYbIvnEpR0Ct5QQQqYaORUSUH For all of the day’s top local and national news, visit http://www.wlos.com Watch our live newscasts and other live video at https://wlos.com/watch Have a news tip? Send it directly to us: Email us: [email protected] Call the Newsroom: 828.684.1340 WLOS ABC 13 News serves the Asheville, NC area and the rest of western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. We keep our audience informed through local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of community events, sports and entertainment programming since 1954.
