RIDGEFIELD — Firefighters in the southwest Washington community of Ridgefield used a hydraulic rescue tool to free a deer that got stuck between the bars of a home’s metal gate.
Homeowner Tonya Snyder shooed some deer away from apples in her yard Tuesday. Clark County Fire and Rescue Battalion Chief Tim Dawdy said one of them got wedged between the vertical metal bars of an automatic gate.
The Columbian reported that the first police officers on scene called county animal control and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife but no one was nearby to help.
Snyder said a call to the fire department brought firefighter-paramedic Dave Bridges, who spread the gate bars with a tool typically used to free people wedged in crumpled cars. The deer suffered some scrapes but bounded away.
Dawdy said the firefighters were “delighted they were able to save the deer.”
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