Rescuing pets after disaster: How animal groups step in to help

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From California wildfires to Texas floods, see how animal welfare groups race into disaster zones to rescue pets, give emergency care, and bring them back home.

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00:00As flames tore through neigh

00:02earlier this year, families

00:05to evacuate. And in many ca

00:07left behind. Organizations

00:11stepped in to provide imme

00:14in what would normally be

00:18room, chickens in an area

00:21for wildlife. So it's jus

00:25pieces around and just ma

00:28all the animals were ge the

00:30In July, when catastrophic

00:32Central Texas, Austin Pets

00:35quickly. First, by prepa

00:38to handle an influx of an

00:40second thing is try to det

00:42happening for the pets that

00:45by a disaster. We set up a

00:48of veterinarians to go down

00:51and just be there all day

00:53thing that we did is start

00:55in Austin. On the ground,

00:58families faced tough condit

01:00to find animals hidden in

01:01debris. The hardest part is

01:02just trying to get through

01:04all the debris, find a place

01:05that's safe to put down a

01:07cat trap or even locate animals

01:09within all the debris. This

01:11kind of coordinated response

01:12happens after all kinds of

01:14disasters. Following hurricanes,

01:16teams bring in mobile vet units,

01:17field shelters and more, doing

01:19everything they can to treat

01:21injured pets and reunite them

01:22with their families. I think

01:24that speaks to how important pets

01:26are to family and how critical

01:28it is that we consider them

01:30in disasters. These organizations

01:32don't just save animals. They

01:34preserve the bond between pets

01:36and people offering comfort,

01:38stability and hope when it's

01:39needed most following severe

01:41weather. For AccuWeather,

01:42for AccuWeather, I'm Allie Reed.

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