A dog that fell through the ice at Canobie Lake in Salem, New Hampshire, was rescued Saturday by the Salem Fire Department’s Battalion 4 crew after firefighters used an inflatable raft to reach the animal and a crew member in protective gear who entered the water to bring the dog back to shore.

Local news video and still images documented the response, showing firefighters moving across the frozen surface on the raft and one firefighter — wearing protective equipment — making contact with the dog in the open water. The department described the outcome in a brief statement as a successful rescue.

According to the department’s account, crews responded after the dog went through the ice and worked their way onto the lake with the inflatable raft to reach the animal. Photographs from the scene show the raft approaching across broken and thin ice, with responders coordinating operations both on the raft and at the ice edge to secure the dog and return it to shore.

The department said, “We were able to successfully save the dog.” That statement, posted alongside images from the scene, captured the central fact of the response: firefighters reached the dog using the raft, and a crew member equipped with protective gear entered the water to secure and retrieve the animal.

Witness images and video, including coverage by and WCVB, record the sequence of the rescue. They show the tactical progression from shore to the area of open water where the dog had fallen: personnel deploying the raft, navigating across fragile ice, and a firefighter making direct contact with the animal before returning toward shore. The footage highlights the step-by-step movement required in an operation conducted on a partially frozen body of water.

The operation was led by Battalion 4, which the department said directed the response throughout the incident and cleared the scene after the dog had been returned to shore. The department posted details and images about the call on its public channels, and local outlets provided additional footage and stills that documented the rescue from multiple angles.

Canobie Lake, noted by the department as a body of water that develops thin ice in early winter, was the setting for the incident. The department’s description of the conditions and its chosen approach emphasize the challenges responders face when operating on ice that may not uniformly support weight. In this case, responders used the inflatable raft as their primary method of approach, a tactic visible in the local television coverage of the event.

Photographs and video captured several moments in the operation: personnel working at the lake’s edge, the inflatable raft moving across broken ice toward open water, a firefighter in protective equipment entering the water to secure the dog, and the return trip to shore. Those images accompanied the department’s brief post about the call and were distributed by local media outlets covering the rescue.

The department credited the crew’s actions with the successful outcome and noted that the scene was cleared after the rescue was complete. The incident stands as a single successful ice-rescue operation carried out by Salem Fire Department personnel on Saturday at Canobie Lake, a response that was documented by both the fire department and local news teams.