CONCORD, N.C.(WFMY)-- First Responders are used to getting calls for fires, car crashes, medical emergencies and natural disasters. In Concord emergency workers can add doe rescue to their repertoire.
Friday, Rescue 3 Fire Department got a call about a deer stuck in a stormwater drain. According to the city's Facebook post, a wildlife officer said the young doe may have crawled into a culvert and ended up in the storm water drain.
The doe realized then there was no way out. With the guidance of wildlife officers, the rescue crew members were able to execute their technical rescue training and get the deer out safely. The doe had some minor cuts.
Thank you to a crew that 'deerly' loves their job! (Okay, we stole line for them).
She was returned to her natural habitat....the wild.
"The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage." --John Muir
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