Firefighters in California struggled this week to rescue a dog from a hot car.
A witness recorded the attempted rescue on cell video Tuesday in a Sacramento parking lot.
Firefighters were called to the scene by someone who spotted the dog. When crews arrived, they found it was 114 degrees inside the car.
In the video, the dog is heard panting as it sits on the floorboard and tries to keep cool.
Firefighters say the dog started to bark and refused to come out when they tried to rescue him. They crafted a makeshift lasso to try and get him out, but the owner returned with her kids before they could get him.
The woman apparently told them she left the window down and thought it would be fine.
The fire department shared the video on Facebook and wrote, “Even with a window rolled down, the temperatures are still too hot for any animal or human to sit in a parked vehicle.”
The woman was not ticketed or fined by firefighters because they don’t enforce the law.