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'Roof, roof!' Dog rescued from overhang roof at his home

The Associated Press Published Tuesday, June 12, 2018 4:34PM EDT

This June 8, 2018, photo provided by the Spring Lake Park-Blaine-Mounds View Fire Department, shows firefighter David O'Keeffe helping to rescue a Saint Bernard named Whiskey from a small roof above an entry door of a home in Spring Lake Park, Minn. (Anthony Scavo/Spring Lake Park-Blaine-Mounds View Fire Department via AP)

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SPRING LAKE PARK, Minn. -- "Roof! Roof!" He was practically begging to be rescued.

Firefighters in the Minneapolis suburb of Spring Lake Park on Friday managed to help an 82-kilogram Saint Bernard named Whiskey who had gotten stuck on the small roof of the overhang at a side door of his home.

The homeowner's mother was housesitting when Whiskey pushed out a window screen and jumped onto the second-story overhang.

She and police tried to coax him back inside with dog treats, but to no avail, so firefighters with a ladder truck were summoned. One firefighter on a ladder and two inside eventually managed to pull Whiskey safely into the house.