Once officers arrived, work began to release the bird, which had become caught behind netting. Two fire engines with an aerial ladder platform turned up and officers took an RSPCA officer up to the building's third storey.
RSPCA inspector Jo Story, who went up with the firemen, said they discovered a dead bird while they released the trapped one. Jo said: 'Unfortunately when something is up that high there’s nothing I can do but call the fire brigade. Thankfully they are always willing to come out and help if they are not doing anything more urgent.
'I know a lot of people will see this as a lot of effort for a pigeon but from the RSPCA’s point of view, a life is a life.' A spokeswoman from Dorset Fire and Rescue service said: 'We went along to a road in the town centre because there was a pigeon stuck. The RSPCA had called us and we used an aerial ladder platform we were using for training nearby to rescue the bird.'
There's a video here.
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This is what I like to read. People are good. The bad people are few. We do care about life in general, and have a great respect for it.
hmmmm.... expensive way to save a rat with wings.
They can't go knee-deep into a boating lake to help a drowning person but will do this for flying vermin. What a disgraceful waste of resources. And the inconvenience to the general public. No wonder the emergency services are becoming a laughing stock.
^ Agree with Patty. Whilst saving an animal is a good and noble thing, letting that man drown because of regulations was f-cking disgraceful.
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