Coalinga Police K9 Nitro dies after being found lethargic in outside kennel

Chief Garza says the Coalinga Police Department plans to grant Nitro with a ceremonial successful the adjacent future.

COALINGA, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Coalinga Police Department is mourning the nonaccomplishment of 1 of their canines, Nitro.

The half-German Shepherd and half-Belgian Malinois was 4 years aged and joined the section successful March 2022.

He was recovered successful his outdoor kennel astatine his handler's location aboriginal Monday morning.

"He was recovered by the handler, looking existent lethargic. They didn't cognize what was wrong. They tried to chill him down, past took him to the emergency, wherever helium died," explained Coalinga Police Chief Jose Garza.

It came aft a play wherever we saw dangerously precocious temperatures.

However, lone a necropsy tin find the authoritative origin of death.

The Coalinga Police Department is doing an interior probe to guarantee the animal's attraction was wrong policy.

While K9s thrust successful air-conditioned cruisers during their shifts, Chief Garza says they enactment successful outdoor kennels astatine their handler's location erstwhile they are disconnected the clock.

"All these pins that are done are made connected the extracurricular of the residence with a cement pad, and the obstruction with a extortion and everything. They thin to their K9s with plentifulness of water, food, and what's needed to support them," mentioned Chief Garza.

However, Nitro had not been connected the occupation for respective months due to the fact that his handler had been retired connected workers comp.

During his clip astatine the department, Nitro was a portion of the narcotics squad and helped with respective arrests.

Nitro was 1 of 2 constabulary dogs astatine the department.

"Right present the section is decidedly mourning the sadness of Nitro, a precise bully K9," expresses Chief Garza.

Chief Garza says the Coalinga Police Department plans to grant Nitro with a ceremonial successful the adjacent future.

For now, they volition absorption connected the probe into his death.

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