N.B. firefighters rescue moose from icy river: ‘She was kind of slippery’
SHEDIAC, N.B. — A 225-kilogram female moose was trapped in an icy river for hours on the weekend before axe-wielding New Brunswick firefighters were able to rescue it.
The Shediac fire department got a call at around 9 a.m. Saturday from a homeowner on the Shediac River who had spotted the moose an hour earlier.
“We responded with (wet)suits and the rescue van, and the boys went out with the axes and the sledgehammer to break the ice, to get the moose loose,” firefighter Jos LeBlanc, who took a cellphone video of the rescue, said Monday.
He said the half-submerged moose was at first agitated by the firefighters, but calmed down.