A man and a woman were on a trail by the Eagle River when one of their dogs went into the water and they went in after it. The woman went under the ice, officials said.

Officials in Alaska plan to resume on Tuesday a search for a woman who went into an Anchorage area river over the weekend to save a dog but disappeared under the ice, Alaska State Troopers said.

A man and a woman were walking on the North Fork Eagle River Trail at about 2:15 p.m. Saturday when one of their dogs went into the water, troopers said in a statement Monday.

Both of them went in the river to help the dog, but the woman disappeared after entering an open spot of water, troopers said.

  • Drusas
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    4111 months ago

    They don’t even say what happened to the dog. That can’t be good. I would probably die trying to save my dog, but I’d be pretty sad if I somehow knew that the dog didn’t make it anyway.

    • @jordanlund
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      1111 months ago

      That was my reaction:

      “The man was not injured.”

      Whoah, whoah, whoah… Dog OK?

    • @Nastybutler
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      510 months ago

      My wife takes our dogs to this area often for walks, and she said even knowing what just happened to this woman, she’d still try to save the dog if it was going under.

      She will be sticking to the parts of the river that are more solidly frozen, however.

      • Drusas
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        210 months ago

        Such a beautiful area for taking dogs for a walk, too. I used to live down in Anchorage, but I made the trip up there a couple of times. Lovely.