A black dog raced off the edge of a cliff and plummeted out of sight. Two teenage boys ran after him, scrambling lower and lower down the scraggly slope until they found him, trapped but uninjured.
Maybe the boys rejoiced for a moment. But safety was now a hundred feet above them, and a river surged below. They were trapped then, too.
The call came in to the Marshalls Creek Fire Company around 8 p.m. Saturday, and within 15 minutes a team of rescuers gathered at the top of the cliff. They couldn t see the boys or their dog, Titan, but they could hear them shouting somewhere far below. They got to work quickly.