An 85-year-old Colorado woman who went missing last week was found by a K-9 police dog after she got stuck along the side of a "steep ravine," officials said.
The City of Greenwood Village shared body-worn camera video that showed Greenwood Village Police Department Officer Austin Speer and K-9 Mercury working to track the unnamed woman, who had been missing for around two hours on Thursday, May 2, Knewz.com has learned.
Within minutes of beginning the search, Mercury located the woman "clinging to a tree down a steep ravine where she could not be seen from the roadway or canal," the city wrote alongside the video on Facebook.
"This is a friendly dog he found you! We're gonna get you home, OK," Speer tells the woman.
Corporal Brandon Runyan and Officer Roberto Moya assisted Speer and Mercury in safely rescuing the woman, and she was reunited with her family.
In the comments on the Facebook post, the woman's son, Pete Holman, thanked the officers for finding her.
"I had been searching for her for two hours and Mercury and officer Speer found her in 10 minutes: UNBELIEVABLE! It was like watching a Navy Seal extraction," Holman wrote.
The city said Mercury is trained in searching and tracking missing persons, and joined the police department a year and a half ago "for this specific purpose, in addition to his skills in narcotics detection."
—TMX contributed to this report.
