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Oct. 18, 2018 / 3:20 PM

Dog buried under bricks for 2 days found alive

By
Clyde Hughes

Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Magic, an American pit bull terrier buried Monday under a collapsed three-story wall of bricks in Philadelphia, was found alive in the rubble Wednesday, leaving his owner in tears.

Construction work on a building in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood went wrong when the brick wall toppled Monday morning, crashing onto a car owned by next-door neighbor Jose Gonzalez and his 16-year-old dog Magic, according to NBC News. Gonzalez desperately searched for the dog in the deep rubble to no avail.

"And everybody pronounced him dead," Gonzalez told WPVI-TV.

Pedro Palmer, who owns the construction company hired to clean up the mess, was going through the rubble on Wednesday when he noticed something moving under the bricks.

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"I said, 'that's impossible, that can't be the dog,'" Palmer told NBC, adding that two other workers started digging by hand and freed Magic in about 15 minutes. "I think it's a miracle. I believe in God more than I believed before."

Gonzalez told WCAU-TV that he was overcome by the news.

"They say men don't cry but I was so happy I was crying," Gonzalez said to the television station. "We are all happy about that, that nobody was hurt. That's was the main thing. But when I found out my dog was here, it was the same thing as somebody getting hurt."

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A veterinarian treated Magic for trauma and dehydration after he was rescued, NBC reported.

Though Magic survived, Philadelphia's Department of Licenses and Inspections told WPVI-TV the owner of the rowhome where the wall collapsed was not adhering to construction code and used an unlicensed and uninsured contractor for the job.

A city inspector was expected to examine the building after the incident, WPVI-TV stated.

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