[MarinTeams] Firefighters Save Donkey Trapped in Well

[Dulce Shafer]

Dear Kate,

Thanks for neat story.  I love happy endings! Aloha,
Dulce



--- Kate Danaher <katedanaher at comcast.net> wrote:

>
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/09/14/963066-firefighters-save-donkey-tra
> pped-in-well 
> 
> Firefighters Save Donkey Trapped in Well
> Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:03 PM EDT
> Associated Press
> 
> UNDERWOOD ‹ A donkey is happily eating grass again
> after falling down a dry,
> abandoned well and being freed in an intensive
> rescue effort. It appeared
> that the animal wandered away from its farm and onto
> some boards covering
> the well, which broke, said Bruce Huseth, fire chief
> in this western
> Minnesota town.
> 
> Firefighters quickly realized that the animal, which
> belongs to farmer
> Warren Gundberg, couldn't just be pulled from the
> abandoned well on Bryan
> Nelson's land.
> 
> So they started pulling away earth with a tractor
> and dismantling the well
> block by block Thursday. Once one wall had been
> taken apart, firefighters
> put a harness around the donkey and guided it out
> with a rope.
> 
> "Whatever it takes," Nelson said as he watched his
> well come down. "I love
> animals, and I'm just glad it's OK."
> 
> Gundberg admonished the animal after the rescue: "I
> bet you'll think twice
> about doing that again. If you would have stayed
> home you wouldn't be in
> this trouble."
> 
> Huseth said that he has rescued cows that have
> fallen through ice, but that
> the donkey was a first.
> 
> 
> 
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