B.C. Labrador ‘Tanker’ rescued from steel beam with help from GPS, fire department

On Thursday morning, Maureen Ward said she let Tanker and his labrador sibling out of the house south of Nanaimo, B.C. so they could go to the bathroom.

According to his owner Maureen Ward, Tanker is no stranger to getting himself into trouble.

It’s why the three-year-old Labrador wears a collar affixed with a special GPS tracker that sends his location in real-time to Ward’s smartphone application.

“He likes to hunt bunnies, unfortunately,” she explained.

On Thursday morning, Ward said she let Tanker and his Labrador sibling out of the house south of Nanaimo, B.C., so they could go to the bathroom. That’s when the pair unexpectedly took off.

Ward said she opened her ‘Tractive’ app, and when Tanker stopped moving, she got in the car to get it, thinking Tanker had dropped his collar. Her other Labrador spotted her, and brought her to the Nanaimo Nickel Brothers yard, she said.

“We went over to the blue bins first, because I heard him crying but I couldn’t tell where,” she said. “We ultimately found him inside this giant beam.”

Tanker was stuck inside an opening of a steel beam on the site. Ward couldn’t get him out and called 911.

The Cranberry Volunteer Fire Department soon arrived.