A Georgia police department is in mourning after the newest and beloved member of the K-9 unit, a bloodhound named Georgia, died after being left in a hot patrol car by a deputy who’s since been fired.
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In a Facebook statement on Tuesday from the Dade County Sheriff’s office in Trenton, the department, who labeled the pup “sweet” and “goofy,” wrote that their hearts were aching after losing her because her handler left in a car with temperatures outside reaching between 100-102 degrees after the patrol car’s air conditioning unit failed.
Look at that picture of the sweet puppy.
TRAGIC: A K9 officer named Georgia died while she was inside a vehicle whose air conditioning compressor failed on Sunday.
Dade County authorities say not only that, a heat alarm in the vehicle’s self-contained kennel failed to go off.
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“Our hearts are aching