A California teen is lucky to be alive after he survived a harrowing fall outside of Los Angeles when he went to save his beloved dog.
KABC-TV reports that Ivan Salas, 19, went after his dog, who was chasing a bottle that his father had tossed, when both the teen and the pooch went sliding down the side of a 150-foot drop.
"It was extremely scary, dangerous. I don't know what I was thinking when I went down," he told the TV station.
Firefighters grabbed the pair a few hours later as they were clinging to the side of a nearly vertical slope on the hill, the Associated Press reported.
They first tried to hoist him and the dog to safety, but when that looked too dangerous two firefighters bravely rappelled down the cliff to get them. It took 35 firefighters in all to ensure Salas made it home safely.
Dramatic video caught the incident, where Salas is seen clinging to the side of the hill as a firefighter came to rescue him.
"(The rocks) were hitting me in the face and my dog too, and then my dog started panicking, she was going crazy. I just grabbed her tight," Salas told the station.
Salas has a few bumps and was dehydrated, but otherwise just shaken up from the incident. His dog was also unharmed.
"It's not just a dog, it's family and my best friend at the same time, so I had to do it," Salas told the station.
With News Wire Services
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