If there one job that impresses me since the first thought of being a firefighter is put out fires and rescue people from burning buildings.
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On Sunday a concerned citizen who was going to tend the garden when the homeowner saw a beaver that had his lower torso stuck between the two iron bars of a fence.
The concerned citizen called the Eagle Fire Department to report the incident that a beaver attempted to leave the home to go back to the creek needed to be rescued,
The Eagle Fire Department firefighters who were led by their leader Chief Nevil Humphreys used a Halligan bar and lashing to spread the length of the two iron bars in a horizontal way so that the beaver could leave the backyard so he can go back to the creek to be with his relatives.
What makes this story amusing is a beaver should know when it is proper to leave an area that is surrounded by a metal fence by trying to go between two bars that are close together since the attempt to escape would be impossible to accomplish.
The second part of this story that is humorous is that Humphreys has 25 years of service as a firefighter. The rescue of a beaver was a first in the history of his service to his community.
There is an old saying “There is a first for everything.” I am sure the beaver is glad to have been freed from the trap he was in being stuck in between two iron bars on a fence in Eagle Idaho.
Another happy ending, thank you for sharing.
You are welcome Branka.
Another wild animal saved by the firefighters. c”,)
What I find it is amazing is that firefighters saves animals from getting stuck in some tough places.
I think they were trained to be in a tough situation. But I do think their job is dangerous.
Firefighters have a very dangerous job whether it is putting out fires or saving humans as well as animals who get stuck in tough places.
I do agree with you. c”,)
Another happy ending, thank you for sharing.
My pleasure to share the good stories that seldom get reported by the news media.
What has the firefighters done to help the beaver? Bending the fence?
The firefighters used a crow bar to bend the fence so the beaver could leave the area and back to his home.
Yes, that is the way I imagine, though it should be straightened back as if it were crooked because it looks like it is wrought iron.
I am sure the firefighters did place the bars back to where they were before the beaver got stuck.
Poor thing, I am glad they helpled him!
I know how you feel ellie925 since the poor beaver could have starved to death if the firefighters did not free him from his trap with the iron fence.
I’m certain my friends in a fakebook group I am in will love this. You just might get a small following. You never now. Keep it up!
My pleasure to share these good stories on this site.
I wonder if they couldn’t have just greased it up and rotated it a quarter turn
Maybe the animal rescuers were shocked to see the beaver stuck on the fence.
Yes, and then there is also Rasma’s question of how the beaver was able to enter in the first place and what all did it eat to get stuck on the way out
How did the beaver get inside the garden is still not clear at this time.
One would imagine the way it attempted to leave is the way it got in, but that isn’t necessarily the case…
In the end, everything was happily completed. He had luck because the firefighters were too old. people of a great heart.
The beaver has learned his lesson not to try to get through bars that are too close together since half of his body was stuck on the bars.
That beaver better lay off all those calorie-laden meals he must have been eating.
You would think that a beaver would try to leave an area by looking for an opening in a fence instead of trying to squeeze through metal bars that were close together.