jacoby recording on his cell phone, sims works out a rescue plan with the help of neighbor, john applegate, she's about 60 feet out. he said, we need an inner tube or something. and i said, i've got one but i have to go inflate it. i threw a 100 foot extension cord that was on a reel and i got the tube secured to the extension cord. >> i got on the tube and they gave me a push and i just started making my way out to her. >> sims swings an ax to try and break the ice. >> hey, chloe. george is coming. >> while sims struggles through the icy water, firefighters arrive. >> it was not only a neighborhood group effort, it was a community effort because we had several fire units there. we had a couple police officers. we had animal control. >> she was out there for at least an hour, because it was a good 20 minutes before i realized that it was a dog in the lake. and about ten minutes before we got down there, and then maybe ten more minutes before everybody else got down there. >> as sims nears chloe, it appears the dog is losing her will to fight. >> she wasn't really trying or struggling so mu