A dog stranded on a cliff at Portuguese Beach in California's Sonoma County was rescued on Saturday by a deputy dangling from a helicopter.<br /><br />The black and white Labrador, Oreo, managed to get herself about 40 feet down a 90-foot cliff. Her owner called for help and authorities were dispatched to the scene.<br /><br />When the dog proved unable to come back up the cliff on her own, a sheriff's deputy was hooked up to Henry-1, the sheriff's department's rescue helicopter, and sent down the rock face to rescue the animal.<br /><br />Oreo responded positively to the rescue--she went along willinging--and she was safely reunited with her owner. The scene was witnessed by several onlookers who were visiting the beach that unusually warm day and they erupted into applause.<br /><br />The rescue mission took less than three minutes in total.
