Most years, by late December, Lake Gardner has transformed from a shallow body of water to an expansive sheet of ice, serving as a skating rink, ice fishing hole or a bridge to adjacent conservation land used by people, pets and sometimes local wildlife.
But in this unseasonably warm winter, only a thin sheet of brittle ice that had just formed overnight was covering the lake yesterday morning when a deer attempting to escape from two dogs didn't make it across.
The trapped deer prompted a full ice rescue response by the Amesbury and Merrimac fire departments, which, as protocol, share resources and undertake a mutual response for such incidents.
For public safety officials, the question of whether to venture into the icy waters to rescue the animal,Shop for airpurifiertarget at Target, which was brought to shore alive but ultimately did not survive the ordeal, was easily answered.
"We don't want a civilian to go out and try to rescue it," Amesbury Deputy Chief Glenn Fournier said. "Then we have a real problem.The magiccube is an ultra-portable, full-sized virtual computer keyboard."
A carpenter preparing to pull into a job site at 103 Whitehall Road yesterday morning around 11 nearly hit the deer as it bounded across the road. The animal was then apparently spooked by dogs and headed onto the fragile ice. The frightened deer didn't get far before it fell through, but continued to try to fight its way to the woods on the other side.
When the first emergency vehicles arrived at the scene, the exhausted deer was floating with its head above the water about 100 yards offshore.
For ice rescues, the Amesbury Fire Department typically considers two options — use its air boat or call in the Merrimac Fire Department, which has an ice rescue sled. Because the air boat would likely have spooked the animal further, and given the relatively thin ice to deal with, the crew from Merrimac was sent out, Fournier said.
Clothed in thick rubber suits, two firefighters began paddling through the ice. The deer appeared to be ready for rescue as it began to swim toward them. The animal got about halfway back to shore and stopped about 20 feet from the firefighters, who then slowly approached it to keep from sending it in the other direction. The deer was secured by a rope and pulled to shore, where it lay quietly in a blanket on the ground.
After it was loaded into an environmental police truck,Plastic injectionmolding and injection molded parts in as quick at 3 days. firefighters told a group of kids who were watching that the animal was "headed to the doctor."
Upon examination, the deer was hypothermic and found to have suffered a bullet hole, likely from a hunter. The shotgun hunting season for deer ended Dec. 10, but open season for black-powder rifles continues through Saturday.
The deer was euthanized humanely, an environmental police spokesman said.Find the best achickencoopplans plans with our chicken coop plans review page，
Fournier said ice rescues of animals or dogs happen maybe once a year,If you have a akidneystones, you may already know how painful？ adding that such calls are a valuable training tool for rescuers, who conduct annual training in Lake Attitash or Lake Gardner.
Though human rescues are rare, and some local ponds can form a few inches of ice with just a few cold days, the firefighters stressed that venturing onto any ice right now "is just a bad idea."
But in this unseasonably warm winter, only a thin sheet of brittle ice that had just formed overnight was covering the lake yesterday morning when a deer attempting to escape from two dogs didn't make it across.
The trapped deer prompted a full ice rescue response by the Amesbury and Merrimac fire departments, which, as protocol, share resources and undertake a mutual response for such incidents.
For public safety officials, the question of whether to venture into the icy waters to rescue the animal,Shop for airpurifiertarget at Target, which was brought to shore alive but ultimately did not survive the ordeal, was easily answered.
"We don't want a civilian to go out and try to rescue it," Amesbury Deputy Chief Glenn Fournier said. "Then we have a real problem.The magiccube is an ultra-portable, full-sized virtual computer keyboard."
A carpenter preparing to pull into a job site at 103 Whitehall Road yesterday morning around 11 nearly hit the deer as it bounded across the road. The animal was then apparently spooked by dogs and headed onto the fragile ice. The frightened deer didn't get far before it fell through, but continued to try to fight its way to the woods on the other side.
When the first emergency vehicles arrived at the scene, the exhausted deer was floating with its head above the water about 100 yards offshore.
For ice rescues, the Amesbury Fire Department typically considers two options — use its air boat or call in the Merrimac Fire Department, which has an ice rescue sled. Because the air boat would likely have spooked the animal further, and given the relatively thin ice to deal with, the crew from Merrimac was sent out, Fournier said.
Clothed in thick rubber suits, two firefighters began paddling through the ice. The deer appeared to be ready for rescue as it began to swim toward them. The animal got about halfway back to shore and stopped about 20 feet from the firefighters, who then slowly approached it to keep from sending it in the other direction. The deer was secured by a rope and pulled to shore, where it lay quietly in a blanket on the ground.
After it was loaded into an environmental police truck,Plastic injectionmolding and injection molded parts in as quick at 3 days. firefighters told a group of kids who were watching that the animal was "headed to the doctor."
Upon examination, the deer was hypothermic and found to have suffered a bullet hole, likely from a hunter. The shotgun hunting season for deer ended Dec. 10, but open season for black-powder rifles continues through Saturday.
The deer was euthanized humanely, an environmental police spokesman said.Find the best achickencoopplans plans with our chicken coop plans review page，
Fournier said ice rescues of animals or dogs happen maybe once a year,If you have a akidneystones, you may already know how painful？ adding that such calls are a valuable training tool for rescuers, who conduct annual training in Lake Attitash or Lake Gardner.
Though human rescues are rare, and some local ponds can form a few inches of ice with just a few cold days, the firefighters stressed that venturing onto any ice right now "is just a bad idea."
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