Animal lovers are searching for answers after a group of Good Samaritans found a dog chained alone to a tree near an active fire evacuation zone.

According to GlobalNews.ca , Janet O'Reilly was one of the first people to hear the abandoned canine. O'Reilly lives near the boundary of the fire evacuation alert zone for the Wesley Ridge wildfire burning on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

O'Reilly told the outlet that she "heard a dog crying" in early August while on a walk with her own dog on a series of remote forest trails on the border of the fire evacuation alert zone.

The woman didn't see a dog in distress, so she returned home and went to work. Later that day, she learned from her neighbor that they had heard a dog barking in the same area and decided to investigate, eventually

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