Credit: miamiherald
Six staff members, along with three dogs, managed to survive by swimming to safety when the water dwindled through the drainage system at the shelter, after spending two hours in the roof crawling space before swimming.
“Our shelter is not habitable or monster right now.” “The urgent need is to get these animals off the island for proper medical care.” This is what Executive Director Tip Burrows told the newspaper.
Although 156 dogs and cats survived the storm, the shelter must now find a new place for them. But 113 animals were killed, a great loss and a pity.
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