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"A dog is now safe with its owner after taking an unintended sail down the Kennebec River this past weekend.Two Bath Iron Works security guards saved the poodle from a small ice chunk floating in the frigid water.\"That's the first time for a dog. We've retrieved other odds and ends over the years, but this one was unique,\" said Sgt, Paul White.Unique enough to where he and Cpl. Harland Stanley took a picture with the dog, named Hoku, after the rescue.\"So I shook its hand and off we went. He just had the look in his eyes like he was ready to go home, I guess,\" said Stanley.But not before a short but incredible journey. The two guards said Hoku managed to ride a small piece of ice about a half-mile before he was rescued.\"As we got closer you could see the dog was getting a little nervous.\u00A0 He appeared like he was afraid of the water so he didn't jump in. We let him float towards us in the current,\" said Stanley.The guards said they got a call, took the boat out and met the dog, turning off the engine and letting the boat drift up. The pooch was floating with the tide.\"(He) was sitting there just as happy as could be, waiting there for someone to fetch him off,\" said White.And that is what Stanley and White did.\"We thought this was one for the books so we would get a quick picture of the dog, Harland and myself and then we returned the dog to the owner,\" said White.Both said they know this story could have had a very different outcome.\u00A0 Even so, both said they were just doing their job and are happy the dog is back with its owner."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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