This is the moment a deputy mayor rescued a horse from drowning on a flooded street in southern Brazil state of Rio Grande do Sul.
The heroic images shows Santo Antônio da Patrulha Deputy Mayor Marcelo Santos holding on to the back of a jet ski with one hand while grabbing onto the lasso with the other in order to prevent the horse from being swept away in the municipality of Canoas.
Santo Antônio da Patrulha Deputy Mayor Marcelo Santos traveled 50 miles to the municipality of Canoas to volunteer in the rescue of residents stranded in their flooded homes following last week’s storm in the southern Brazil state of Rio Grande do Sul and saved a horse from drowning on Monday
TV Globo images also captured the rescue of another horse Thursday after it was spotted stranded on the roof of a home a day earlier in the municipality of Canoas.
Footage showed army soldiers and firefighters placing the horse on raft after a veterinarian was able to sedate it.
Deputy Mayor Marcelo Santos rode up to a horse on a jet ski and pulled it out of a flooded street in the southern Brazil city of Canoas on Monday. Canoas has reported four of the 107 deaths following last week’s storm in the state of Rio Grande do Sul
Deputy Mayor Santos said the horse (not pictured) that he rescued from drowning on a Brazilian street Monday did not put up a struggle when he held on to its lasso and halter and escorted it to dry land
The army and fire department rescued a horse on Thursday after it was seen stranded on the roof of a home by a TV Globo helicopter a day earlier
The most recent report from Rio Grande do Sul Civil Defense confirmed 136 are missing and 374 have been treated for injuries since April 29.