FAIRBANKS -- An Alaska teacher's dog is on safe ground again after the Labrador mix fell into a hole in the river ice and was carried away by the current.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper reports Travis Gottlin thought he had lost his dog Ashii after it slipped under the Chena River ice Friday evening near the Angel Rocks trailhead.
Gottlin, a science teacher in the interior community of Nenana, eventually heard a bump sound under the ice and the sound of Ashii whining about 20 feet from where the dog disappeared.
The ice was thin enough there that Gottlin was able to kick out a hole large enough to grab Ashii by the collar and pull him out.
The dog was fine except for a scratch on his nose.