A twin-engine turboprop plane crashed into the lawn of the Western Lakes Golf Club in Pewaukee, Wis. Tuesday morning.
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A twin-engine turboprop plane crashed into the lawn of the Western Lakes Golf Club in Pewaukee, Wis. Tuesday morning.
Employee of HAWS/Humane Animal Welfare Association
A plane flying from New Orleans to Wisconsin crashed Tuesday morning just outside Milwaukee. Including 53 rescue dogs.
The twin-engine propeller plane crashed into the lawn of the Western Lakes Golf Club in Pewaukee, Wis., just west of the city. Matthew Haerter, assistant director of the Lake Country Fire and Rescue Department, said it was a “catastrophic” landing that severed the plane’s wing. A press conference Tuesday.
“They stopped a few hundred meters after where they tried to land the plane,” he said.
All three people and 53 dogs on board survived, although three people and several puppies suffered minor injuries. Veterinary officers sent 21 dogs to the Humane Society for Animal Welfare for further treatment, and the rest to other shelters in the area, according to the report. washington articles.
Maggie Tate-Techtmann, director of the Humane Animal Welfare Association, said at the press conference that all the dogs will be ready for adoption in the coming days as soon as they are ready.
“It was just comfort and care for them,” says Tate-Techtmann. “Every animal is different just like we are, so we will all react a little differently, but between behavioral care as well as medical care, I am very confident that we can make them all comfortable.”
Tony Wasielewski, deputy fire chief, part of the wreckage response team, was go home one of the puppies, named her CeeCee.
HAWS lift up $7,000 for three days to help cover “unforeseen medical and other expenses” from the crash.
This is one of HAWS’ regular trips transporting at-risk adoptable dogs from Southern states to shelters in Waukesha, Wis., the Washington Post report. These trips are meant to make room for other animals in overcrowded shelters in the South, says Jennifer Smieja, HAWS Communications & Media Specialist. Spay and castration programsRemoving the animals’ reproductive organs, is more common in Waukesha and leads to less livestock overcrowding in this area, she said.
“We have a lot of shelters waiting for animals here and we also have room to keep animals comfortably in our shelters, so it makes sense for us to work together and say hello.” pick up those in need, with the end result being a much more euphoric death,” said Smieja.
These trips usually take place twice a month and are mostly done by van.
“While trucking is more common, we get transport flights about once every six weeks on average, depending on demand and if the flight organizers have funding,” she said.
About 300 gallons of jet fuel spilled onto the golf course and into a swamp, as most of the plane’s fuel was stored in the plane’s wings.
Jet fuel is very flammable Haerter said the current situation is “more an environmental issue than a fire problem”.
“We’re taking steps down there to keep the fuel and stop any runoff from the swamp,” Haerter said.
