A deer was rescued Tuesday evening after falling through the ice into a stormwater pond near Bow Valley High School, struggling in freezing water for nearly 90 minutes.<\/p>\n
A local resident, who witnessed the incident and called 911, praises how people came together to rescue to animal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just out for a walk before dinner and saw four deer approaching the pond. I kept thinking, \u2018I hope they don\u2019t go on there,\u2019\u201d the resident recalled. \u201cOne of them did, unfortunately. I\u2019m really lucky I saw it because in the dark, nobody might have noticed.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Later that evening, I returned to the pond to check on the animal, hoping it had either managed to get out on its own or that conservation officers had already arrived. Unfortunately, the deer was still in the water and appeared exhausted.”<\/p>\n
With Fish and Wildlife officers tied up with another call, RCMP Officer Braedan Barut arrived on the scene, and off-duty firefighters Christian Kennerd and Graeme Rydl lassoed a rope around the deer and were able to pull the animal safely onto land.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt took a couple of tries. At first, it was swimming away, but then it kind of held still, and they got it,\u201d the eyewitness said.<\/p>\n
Once on solid ground, the deer was monitored by Officer Barut and nearby residents to ensure it was breathing and recovering from cold exposure.<\/p>\n
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The next morning, the resident was relief to have discovered the animal had left the area.<\/p>\n
She praised the quick thinking of those involved and said she wasn\u2019t the only one reaching out to emergency services.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was glad to see someone took initiative and helped it. It was such a sad sight, but in this neighborhood, people come together and try to do their best with what they have,\u201d the resident said.<\/p>\n
The rescue highlights the dangers icy stormwater ponds pose to people and wildlife alike during the winter months.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deer was rescued Tuesday evening after falling through the ice into a stormwater pond near Bow Valley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-397728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}