{"id":377997,"date":"2025-12-30T14:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/377997\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:34:09","slug":"look-connecticut-firefighters-rescue-deer-stranded-on-frozen-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/377997\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Connecticut firefighters rescue deer stranded on frozen lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 29 (UPI) &#8212; Firefighters in Connecticut used an inflatable boat to rescue a deer that wandered out onto the ice of a frozen lake and found itself unable to stand up.<\/p>\n<p>The Quaker Farms Fire Company, part of the Oxford Fire Department, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid07uHqFCiaYQY7VMW3JPDLMtddwx4kmBTxrvt6ESi8RJUtQdFoxb67yRdFYw2N9zzkl&amp;id=100070099970648&amp;__cft__[0]=AZZKdB9FOzUBFiKSfGQCRwg86xjf5UbyDD6jS-e4USsHyHBWIhz11feNgfakg0IpKkPV8h5XVtczfU3hw9Ze_-ob4NuIxeG0Z-a8vZNiFlvlN9Ige02W-BEp76ogJBf-q4CbZWs206-sy6x1L-7ThyE3w95NhEzdaWUBPD8rx5eIQQ&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on social media<\/a> that crews responded alongside Oxford EMS when a deer was spotted about 600 feet out onto the ice of Lake Zoar.\n<\/p>\n<p>The deer appeared to be &#8220;unable to stand up due to exhaustion,&#8221; the post said.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers donned cold water rescue gear and ventured out onto the thin ice in an inflatable boat to prevent them from falling through into the frigid lake.<\/p>\n<p>The deer was safely brought back to shore and taken by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for assessment.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 29 (UPI) &#8212; Firefighters in Connecticut used an inflatable boat to rescue a deer that wandered out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,2699,2697,79,2698,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-377997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-funny","10":"tag-odd","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-weird","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377997","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=377997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}