A Minnesota state trooper saved the day for a college student involved in a crash Friday morning when he found her dog after it bolted from the scene and got the two back together.
And that was not his only rescue of the day.
Not long after Sgt. Jesse Grabow got the pooch into safe arms, he retrieved Christmas presents for a family that had been in a separate crash and left the gifts behind.
"We just serve," said Grabow, who works in the patrol's northwestern Minnesota district. "That is what is interesting about this job. You never know what is going to come across."
Grabow's morning started when he was called to a two-vehicle wreck on eastbound Interstate 94 near Rothsay, Minn. Sequoia Krell, a student at the University of North Dakota, was on her way home for the holidays when she spun out on an icy freeway and her vehicle was hit by a semitrailer truck just after 8 a.m., Grabow said.
Both Krell and the truck driver were OK, but her car took some "serious damage," Grabow said.
In all the commotion, Krell's dog, Roo, got loose and ran off into the snow-covered countryside.
Using his intuition and asking himself where he'd run to if he were a dog, Grabow followed fresh tracks that led in the direction of a nearby farmhouse. That is where he spotted Roo trotting down a gravel road.
