Quick-thinking protective services officers have saved a pet dog that leapt onto tracks at a Melbourne station as a train was approaching.
Two Alaskan malamutes, named Kalese and Stark, escaped from their owner during a nightly walk earlier this month, both of them running to nearby Deer Park train station.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: PSOs save dog that jumps onto tracks as train approaches.
CCTV footage shows both dogs sniffing around the edge of the platform before three-year-old Kalese jumps onto the tracks.
Bystanders jump to their feet as a train starts to approach the platform and alert two protective service officers.
“We immediately came up on the radio, stopped the trains because trains were coming from both sides,” PSO Manpreet Oberai told 7NEWS.
“We were trying to keep the dog on the track calm and control the other one on the platform because he wanted to jump in as well.”
The footage shows the V/Line train coming to halt just metres away from Kalese, who then ran under the front carriage.
The PSOs with the help of staff at the station were eventually able to catch Kalese and lift her safely onto the platform.
Social media was then used to locate and contact the dogs’ frantic owner Sean Figredo.
“I got the call saying: ‘Hey look, your dogs are on the track’,” Figredo said.
He said both dogs would now be wearing GPS tracking devices on every walk.
