Trapped baby moose provides ‘wild morning’ for rescuers in Alaska. See what happened
_fitted.png "Rescuers saved a baby moose that was trapped in a lake in Alaska, video shows.")
A trapped baby moose cried out as a pair of people rescued it from a dock in Alaska, videos show.
The moose calf fell into a lake and got stuck between a float plane and the dock, the Homer Police Department said in a June 14 Facebook post.
“Sometimes you really get to do something important in life,” the department said in the post, describing how two officers and a worker at the dock helped save the calf “from sure demise.”
Spencer Warren, the worker, captured the rescue on video. It shows the wide-eyed calf trapped between the dock’s edge and a floating plane, unable to free itself.
“I didn’t think I’d have to deal with this today but, uh, I show up to work and there’s a baby moose that fell in the lake,” Warren says in the video. “It’s stuck between the float and the dock, still alive, it’s trying to get out, but mama moose won’t leave me alone to save the baby.”
Warren describes how the mama moose eventually went to the other side of the parking lot and an officer took the opportunity to get between the moose and the calf with a police cruiser. That officer distracted the mother moose as Warren and another officer pulled the crying calf from the water, video shows.
The calf immediately collapses on the dock, exhausted from the ordeal.
“So tired,” the officer says as he helps the calf back to its feet so it can reunite with its mother.
The video then shows the mother cleaning her rescued calf.
“What a wild morning,” Warren wrote in the video caption.
