Firefighters (carefully) rescue 120-pound Great Dane from a tree

See, this what happens when a dog barks up the wrong tree.

It gets stuck.

Over the weekend a Great Dane in Nebraska named Kora somehow made her way into a tree and couldn’t get down.

When the Plattsmouth Volunteer Fire Department got the call Saturday night that a 120-pound Great Dane was stuck 20 feet up in a tree, the dispatcher couldn’t believe it.

The dog’s owner, Wes McGuirk, found Kora missing when he came home. Then he heard whimpering coming from the tree.

When he called the fire department, the dispatch operator said, “Wait a minute, you have a what in a tree?”

“We rolled in and we all looked out the driver's side window and went, ‘yeah, there's a dog up that tree and it's a big one,’” Jon Hardy of the Plattsmouth Fire Department told WOWT in Omaha.

McGuirk thinks Kora ran off to chase a raccoon or squirrel when someone let her out to do her business. She jumped over a 5-foot fence to reach the tree.

The dog was shivering in the chill of the night and was scared to move. As rescuers came up with a plan McGuirk climbed into the tree to comfort her.

“She was petrified, tired, and cold,” McGuirk told KETV in Omaha.

The rescue team of firefighters and sheriff’s deputies - who brought their K9 unit - wanted to put a harness on Kora and get her to walk down the branches the way she got up. But that didn’t work.

So they attached a long leash to the harness to lower her to ground. About halfway out of the tree she fell safely into the tarp rescuers were holding below.

“She just went into the house like nothing happened,” said Hardy. “It's one of those that we'll talk about down here for a long time.”

The Plattsmouth fire department posted the tale of Kora and video of her rescue on its Facebook page where it’s been shared nearly 4,000 times since Sunday.

This story was originally published April 14, 2016 at 8:28 AM with the headline "Firefighters (carefully) rescue 120-pound Great Dane from a tree."