{"id":277706,"date":"2025-11-07T18:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/277706\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:09:10","slug":"rescue-crews-save-deer-from-10-foot-well-in-niagara-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/277706\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue crews save deer from 10-foot well in Niagara County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dramatic rescue unfolded in Lewiston on Thursday afternoon, involving state officers, emergency crews, and one very unexpected victim.<\/p>\n<p>LEWISTON, N.Y. \u2014 A deer trapped in a 10-foot-deep dry well in Niagara County was safely rescued on Thursday afternoon with the help of state environmental officers and local emergency crews.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported around 1:15 p.m. Thursday. The deer became trapped off of Upper Mountain Road in the Town of Lewiston, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/sports\/outdoors\/officials-urge-drivers-to-avoid-deer-moose-collisions\/71-fe850b0d-caba-4de6-beac-e3ca795f0f31\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Officials warn drivers to watch for deer and moose this fall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Environmental conservation officer George Scheer, a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, and the Niagara County Tech Rescue Team responded to the scene. Working together, they hoisted the deer from the well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The deer was safely released without incident. The well was covered as a preventative measure,&#8221; the DEC said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dramatic rescue unfolded in Lewiston on Thursday afternoon, involving state officers, emergency crews, and one very unexpected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-277706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}