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It was the most awaited rescue. A drone specially equipped company

holding chambers specialists Drones

would rescue the dogs trapped since the eruption of the

volcano

of

La Palma

in a pond covered with ash and completely surrounded by the

wash

. Everything was prepared, the permits, the drones, the plan to rescue them, but ... But when the rescue was to proceed, the dogs were no longer there, they had disappeared.

Instead a banner, you could not see before because it was probably turned by the wind, claimed that the dogs were fine, they had been rescued and that the Team was looking entering itself

walk in the

exclusion zone

had saved the hounds. The mystery of where the animals were was solved, but there would be endless new unknowns and questions. How were they rescued? Who is this mysterious

A-Team

? How could they walk to the hounds among the lava and ash?

How were they able to cross into the exclusion zone?

The

Volcanic Life

company, the company in charge of having been bringing food with another drone to the dogs from the beginning, made public this Wednesday explained in a statement that since Monday they had not seen any of the dogs in the place where they were trapped.

"Our only concern has been to feed the animals for 11 days until last Monday (74 flights).

The videos and information of the operations were transferred to the emergency command post

. The information we can give is that from the last Monday we have not seen any of the dogs in the area, "said the

Volcanic Life statement

.

According to this, the authorities knew since Monday that the dogs were gone, but they continued with all the permits to proceed to the rescue by means of the special drone arranged for it. It was when he was going to proceed to it that it was reported that

the animals were no

longer there, there was no trace of any.

The company

Aerocámaras Especialistas en drones

was the one who confirmed this Thursday the discovery by its drone of "footprints that appear to be of people within the exclusion zone", which "could explain the absence of the dogs in the inspected area" . Next to the footprints, a banner was found hanging from one of the walls of the pond that read

"Force La Palma, the dogs are fine. A Team"

, which added more mystery to the disappearance of the dogs.

"Yesterday afternoon, our drones had captured the canvas, but possibly because of the wind, it was turned

upside down

.

This has puzzled the team, but it was not possible to see that there was any message," explained the SEO of

Aerocámaras

. "Our current intention is to make sure that the dogs have been rescued and are well. We would love to confirm this and be able to terminate our operation on La Palma," he said.

Are the dogs okay?

Apparently yes. Hours later,

Team A

released a video showing current images of the dogs. Images that have been confirmed to be the dogs that were trapped. In total,

6 live dogs

have been rescued

that are safe and in apparent good condition, as

Diario Animalista

has been able to confirm

, in addition to one that had died.

According to the information given to

Diario Animalista

by an anonymous source who indirectly participated in the rescue of the dogs, it

was carried out by land,

bypassing the prohibition of access to the exclusion zone due to the eruption of the volcano and as an alternative to the rescue that was already in place. march with a

drone

from

Aerocámaras

and the

Leales.org

platform

.

This same source has assured the newspaper that the rescue was not carried out in one go but was done in several batches between Sunday and Tuesday.

It was carried out at night, taking advantage of the light of the full moon and without being captured by the authorities.

Likewise, according to the website

Club de Caza

, that someone close to the owners of the animals has been able to speak, it was these who rescued the dogs.

The text published by Antonio López Espada on said website assures that

the owners of the podencos, playing physical games and ignoring the police authorities, came to their rescue and succeeded

.

However, there has been no official confirmation of this.

The dogs apparently fled when the volcano erupted.

They were hunting with their owners in the mountains of La Palma on September 19, and it was the owners who

rescued them last Sunday, October 17 at night, after planning the operation "in silence for days",

according to the Club's website. hunting.

However, some of those involved in the rescue of the dogs have not seen with good eyes that hunters take credit for rescuing the animals.

Thus

Leales.org

, who had organized the authorized rescue of the hounds, has assured in a statement that "hunters try to take credit without showing a single proof."

They point to an anonymous email that is impossible to identify and point out that the images of the video of

Team A

in which the mysterious banner appears

were taken with an authorized drone

for which they have asked the authorities to give

explanations

"

of who has been granted a license to fly by drone and who has drones with thermal cameras that can detect the cold areas of the enclosure, to clarify the facts and find out the status of the animals"

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