D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser would not say – despite being asked multiple times – whether mistakes were made by the city’s 911 call center the day catastrophic flooding killed 10 dogs and trapped employees at a Northeast D.C. doggy day care business last week.
Pet owners are outraged after a communications failure led to a delay in an emergency response to flooding in a doggy daycare that left 10 beloved pooches dead.
The families of the 10 dogs who were killed in the District Dogs flood, sent a letter to D.C. leaders Wednesday. They want a joint meeting to discuss the tragedy.
Maple, Malee, and Zeni didn’t have much of a chance when six feet of floodwaters rushed into their Washington DC doggy daycare last week, their owners say, with some of the dogs locked in cages as the waters rose.