Frida the disaster saving frank is a societal medium star . Not only is she just mostly a safe wienerwurst ( perhaps one of the good ) , she is going above and beyond by trying to find survivors after the devastating 7.1 earthquake in Mexico City this workweek . But tales of her heroic meter so far have been a bit enlarged .
It ’s easy to see why multitude are confused . News outlets like Buzzfeed News have published videos claiming that Frida has savedover 50 people in Mexico . But she has n’t ascertain anyone yet in the rubble of this most recent seism . Not yet , anyway . Alot of peoplehave gotten thewrong estimation .
In reality , the 52 people that Frida has found is the total number feel over her intact career with the Mexican Navy ’s canine building block . And most people she ’s notice have n’t been recovered alive .
From theLos Angeles Times :
Frida is the wiz of the Mexican navy ’s Canine Unit . Throughout her life history , the 7 - year - former Labrador has discover 52 people—12 alive — in various natural disasters .
She detected the torso of a police officer in Juchitan after an earthquake run into the state of Oaxaca two weeks ago .
Again , this does n’t mean that Frida is n’t doing amazing oeuvre . It ’s just that this big game of Telephone we call the cyberspace has gotten some fact fuse up .
As the LA Times level out , fifteen wiener in total have been deploy to Mexico City in an travail to both delivery survivors and recover the bodies of those who have died . 274 people have been confirm utter so far , and that number is expect to grow as Frida and humans research through the devastated city .
Su valiosa ayuda y amor por el ser humano , hacen que de su máximo esfuerzo para salvar vidas#perrosrescatistaspic.twitter.com / jpidngFREV
— SEMAR México ( @SEMAR_mx)September 21 , 2017
Social sensitive really have sex Frida , who really stand out with her adorable auspices goggles and her dismal boot . But Twitter and Facebook have help spread the misleading stats about what she ’s accomplished during this most late earthquake in Mexico .
In one popular tweet from Fluff Society , it ’s claimed that Frida “ has saved 52 the great unwashed so far in Mexico ’s Earthquake . ” But that ’s not quite right .
https://twitter.com/embed/status/910896407418228736
There are a number of videos on YouTube showing how Frida ( who , yes , is nominate after painter Frida Kahlo ) and her fellow canine heroesare trained . And I recommend watching every exclusive one of them .
Seriously , there are a lotof videos .
Frida and her friends are nifty dogs . But Frida has n’t rescued 52 people . She ’s rescued 12 the great unwashed alive over her entire career , which is decidedly 12 more than I have . So thank you for your service , Frida . We salute you .
juke
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