WATCH: Firefighters smash through wall to rescue dog trapped for five days

By Fiona Jackson via SWNS

This is the dramatic moment firefighters smashed through a wall to rescue a dog trapped for five days - and reunited it with its grateful owners.

Gertie went missing and owners Connie Frick and Lynn Herman put up missing posters all over town.

A neighbour heard cries from behind a garage wall, and spotted the pooch through a hole in the floorboards of the room above.

The dog had fallen down a gap behind the garage, and was wedged between it and a wall.

With no way of lifting Gertie out, Cincinnati Fire Department cut a hole in the concrete block wall with saws and a sledgehammer.

After about ten minutes, firefighter Jenny Adkins was able to reach in and pull the dog to safety, who then ran straight over to elated owners Connie and Lynn.

Gertie went missing from its home in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

The pooh escaped when Lynn was coming through the front door on July 13 and ran off into the woods.

It is thought that the tiny escape artist fell down a hole in the roof of the garage and had been stuck there for the entire time she'd been missing.

Resident Vanessa Roland heard a dog crying behind her neighbour's garage wall and alerted them to the noise last Sunday (18/07).

The video was filmed on July 18 2021 by fire apparatus operator Daniel Meyer.