A bull moose in the Adirondack Mountains was rescued by New York conservation officials after falling through the ice. The moose was stranded 200 feet from shore on Lake Abanakee. Forest rangers and officers used ice rescue training and equipment to carefully navigate to the moose and guide it to safety.
NEW YORK — A bull moose that fell through lake ice in the Adirondack Mountains was saved by New York conservation officials in a laborious cold-water rescue.
Higgins was dispatched to the lake thanks to a passerby who saw the moose break through the ice and called it in. Higgins asked for backup, and was quickly joined by a pair of forest rangers. “We were able use our ice rescue training to safely get out there,” said Forest Ranger Evan Nahor, in the video statement.
The forest rangers used a chainsaw to cut away sections of ice connecting the area where the moose broke through to a thicker section of ice, while Higgins pushed the ice blocks underneath the channel, to get them out of the way. The giant moose quickly crawled onto the ice, but the cold and constant treading water — the ordeal lasted around 2 hours — had taken its toll.
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