Forsyth Firefighters Rescue Young Deer from Pond
For two days a young doe endures the cold temperatures while trapped in a storage pond at Fowler Park.
A young doe is probably a lot warmer and dryer thanks to a group of rescuers who pulled her out of a storage pond at Fowler Park Wednesday. Division Chief Jason Shivers of the Forsyth County Fire Department said emergency crews were alerted around 11 a.m. that the doe, about a year old, was in the pond and that she had been in the water since Monday, Dec. 31. "The staff at the Fowler Water Treatment Plant saw her in that pond and thought that she would get herself out," he said. Shivers explained why the staff waited two days before alerting authorities. "They had never experienced that before, they had never encountered a deer in a pond before, so their assumption was that, and likely so, that she would get herself out and it would be …
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Liz Kennedy
5:07 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
Hi Cat, (love your name) I couldn't agree with you more! Liz Kennedy, Editor more ›