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02-14-2002, 08:21 PM
Alaska authorities rescue moose from rooftop
Associated Press
Published Feb 14, 2002
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A young cow moose took a walk on a roof and made Anchorage history.
The 8-month-old moose crashed through the fiberglass roof of a storage shed at Bell's Nursery and got stuck, dangling 8 feet off the ground for three hours until rescuers got her down safely.
Rick Sinnott, a biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said it is thought to be the first rescue of a moose from a roof in the city's history.
``Hopefully the last, too,'' Sinnott added.
At about 9 a.m. Tuesday, greenhouse owner Mike Mosesian got a call from a neighbor who reported a moose was in the greenhouse. Mosesian raced to work, fearing the animal was eating a prized fig tree. But there was no sign of a moose.
``All of a sudden I looked up in the air,'' Mosesian said. ``I thought, My God, there's this moose, 8 feet in the air up on the roof.''
The 400-pound cow had walked onto the deck of a house next to the shed. Then she stepped onto the shed's snowy roof and three of her legs punched through the roof.
Sinnott tranquilized the animal and freed it with the help of a backhoe. After the drugs wore off, the animal walked off ``pretty gingerly'' and headed up a snowy slope out of sight, Sinnott said.
``I don't know what this moose was thinking,'' he said.
Associated Press
Published Feb 14, 2002
http://www.jesseshuntingpage.com/images/moose-fall-roof-2-2002.jpg
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A young cow moose took a walk on a roof and made Anchorage history.
The 8-month-old moose crashed through the fiberglass roof of a storage shed at Bell's Nursery and got stuck, dangling 8 feet off the ground for three hours until rescuers got her down safely.
Rick Sinnott, a biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said it is thought to be the first rescue of a moose from a roof in the city's history.
``Hopefully the last, too,'' Sinnott added.
At about 9 a.m. Tuesday, greenhouse owner Mike Mosesian got a call from a neighbor who reported a moose was in the greenhouse. Mosesian raced to work, fearing the animal was eating a prized fig tree. But there was no sign of a moose.
``All of a sudden I looked up in the air,'' Mosesian said. ``I thought, My God, there's this moose, 8 feet in the air up on the roof.''
The 400-pound cow had walked onto the deck of a house next to the shed. Then she stepped onto the shed's snowy roof and three of her legs punched through the roof.
Sinnott tranquilized the animal and freed it with the help of a backhoe. After the drugs wore off, the animal walked off ``pretty gingerly'' and headed up a snowy slope out of sight, Sinnott said.
``I don't know what this moose was thinking,'' he said.