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Tenn. fire and EMS crew tend to injured dog after collision

Rutherford County Fire & Rescue firefighters administered first aid and applied bandages to Pepper

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Pepper, the dog, had been in one of the involved vehicles and had bleeding paws from a too-short nail trim at the groomer.

Photo/ Rutherford County Fire & Rescue

By News Staff

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. – After responding to a head-on collision and tending to the occupants of both vehicles, a fire and EMS crew turned their attention to a different kind of patient – a dog.

Pepper, the dog, had been in one of the involved vehicles and had bleeding paws from a too-short nail trim at the groomer, wrote Rutherford County Fire & Rescue on its Facebook page.

Rutherford County Fire & Rescue firefighters administered first aid and applied bandages to Pepper using the same techniques they had just learned that morning from a local veterinarian.

A paramedic with Rutherford County EMS then transported Pepper to the local hospital to which her owner had been taken, safely reuniting Pepper with her family

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