Firefighters from Cleckheaton were called to a house in Salterlee, Shibden, West Yorkshire, on Saturday morning. When they arrived, they found the cow trapped on a raised sun terrace, which is built on top of a garage. West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue technical rescue officer Lee Benson said: "It was a very effective rescue but it took quite a bit of organising.
“The cow had fallen onto a concrete terrace but miraculously it was unharmed. The owners thought they had been burgled, but then opened his curtains and found a cow on the roof. We had to get a vet who came and anaesthetised it and we used a special cow harness to lift it up and bring it down. It had dropped about 30ft and it was fine.”
A part of the fence surrounding the terrace had to be removed so the rescue could go ahead. Local farmers also helped rescue the cow, providing a telehandler to winch the cow from the roof before it was placed in a trailer and taken back to its field. The rescue operation took three and a half hours. Lee added: “It was one of the most bizarre animal rescues I have been to. You don’t see this sort of thing every day but it ended well."
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4 comments:
If it had been in the States the police would have shot it, 24 times.
William, the cow that was shot 24 times wasn't shot in the United States, it was our neighbors to the north in Canada.
I would have just led it down the stairs.
sure it was in Canada, it took them 24 shots
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