A dog is safe after being stranded in a tree after Helene, according to officials with the Kingsport Fire Department. Officials said Kingsport Fire Department’s Technical Rescue Team, along with a K-9 Search Unit from the Murfreesboro Police Department,

A Tennessee dog was rescued after Hurricane Helene floods left her stranded 20 feet high in a tree. In a Facebook post on October 2, the Kingsport Fire Department revealed its Technical Rescue Team and the Murfreesboro Police Department found a missing dog 20 feet up a tree in Washington County near the Nolichucky River.

Members of Kingsport Fire Department Technical Rescue Team and Murfreesboro Police Department’s K-9 Search Unit were conducting a search near Nolichucky River when they found a dog alive and stranded 20 feet up in a tree—five days after Hurricane Helene hit Tennessee.