18 crew members, three engines, a Land Rover and a rescue boat to a 999 call-seems like a major rescue operation, doesnt it?
London, August 8 : 18 crew members, three engines, a Land Rover and a rescue boat to a 999 call-seems like a major rescue operation, doesn't it?
But this huge convoy was not for the rescue of afflicted people, but to save a trapped duck.
Fire chiefs rushed with their backup after a woman called 999 after finding the duck stuck between sluices near Earlswood, West Midlands.
After seeing the blue lights and blaring sirens rushing to the scene, residents feared that a child had drowned, but were totally taken aback when it was declared that the "casualty" was Daffy, a white Aylesbury, trapped in a drainage tunnel.
Some residents lashed out at the three-hour operation to free the bird, which lives on a nearby lake, as a "waste of money".
"It was unbelievable. There were five men to each engine, an officer in charge and two with the dinghy. That duck got treated better than people did in the floods," The Sun quoted Retired fireman Neil Guest, a resident of the area, as saying.
However Warwickshire fire bosses said that it was their "good deed for the day".
ANI