Apple’s AirTag this week saved a canine that was swept away in California floodwaters, main rescuers to his location. As reported by ABC7, one-year-old Australian shepherd Seamus fell into fast-moving storm drain after he acquired away from his proprietor throughout a stroll.
Seamus was swept right into a flood management basin and rapidly floated away from his proprietor, however he was ultimately in a position to crawl out of an entry tube. As Seamus had an AirTag on his collar, rescuers have been in a position to find his homeowners, and his homeowners have been in a position to monitor his location.
The drainage community took Seamus roughly a mile away from the place he began, and he was caught on the backside of the entry tube. On its Fb web page, the San Bernardino County Fireplace Division mentioned that each the Apple AirTag and the standard ID tag “aided rescuers and homeowners in monitoring the pup and reuniting them.”
Apple created AirTags to trace gadgets, and the corporate doesn’t advocate utilizing them for monitoring pets, kids, or different dwelling creatures as a result of they require a close-by iPhone to be positioned and should not have their very own built-in GPS monitoring performance. That has not stopped many pet homeowners from utilizing AirTags on their animals, and there are a variety of collars, harnesses, and different equipment for equipping a pet with an AirTag.
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