It took a team of 50 first responders to pull off the rescue

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A woman jumped into a California river to save her dog, only for both of them to be swept downstream on Aug. 26

Rescue teams spent four hours saving the pair from the South Yuba River Canyon in Nevada County

Both the hiker and her pet survived unscathed

A woman and her dog were swept downstream in a river canyon in Northern California and were later saved following a complex, four-hour rescue operation.

On the evening of Aug. 26 a woman was hiking with friends in the South Yuba River Canyon in Nevada County when her dog reportedly fell into the river near Emerald Pools, the…

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