A dog fell into California floodwaters. Saving him was a team effort.

Emilie Brill chased Seamus after the 1-year-old Australian shepherd slipped her grasp during their walk, zipped ahead in a “joy run” and got swept away by a normally dormant canal that had been supercharged into a “raging” river by California’s record-breaking rainfall.

But even at a sprint, Brill couldn’t run as fast as the water carried Seamus. Watching her dog disappear downstream, she didn’t know whether she would ever see him again.