Florida couple left distraught after their two pet dogs were fatally electrocuted in their yard by power cable that fell during historic storm

A mates is near heartbroken aft their 2 dogs were electrocuted erstwhile a powerfulness cablegram fell into their gait during a storm.

Home surveillance footage shows the dogs, Max and Vasco, successful their backyard aft their owners fto them retired during a intermission successful the storm.

Following a abrupt blackout, the North Miami mates rushed extracurricular to observe a fallen powerfulness cablegram successful their garden, fearing the worst for their beloved pups.

'Me and my hubby went retired to check, and the dogs were there, look down, floating successful the small garden,' the wife, who asked not to beryllium identified, told NBC6.

The mutts were rushed to an exigency facility, but they were killed instantly astatine the scene.

Other animals, specified arsenic frogs, were floating lifeless adjacent the dogs, per the surveillance footage.

The bereft mates is present demanding answers from Florida Power & Light arsenic they assertion the poles has been worked connected 2 months earlier the calamity ensued.

FPL acknowledged the incidental successful a statement, deferring further probe details to the North Miami Police Department.

However, constabulary reported the substance is being handled by FPL and the homeowner directly.

South Florida was pounded by 20 inches of rainfall connected Thursday, bringing astir threats of flash flooding.

This followed Wednesday's terrible downpours that caused wide damage, including astatine slightest 1 h2o rescue, flooded homes, stranded vehicles, schoolhouse closures, and adjacent cats stuck successful trees.