Moose rescued by wildlife officials in a river in Washington state

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A couple who were in Elk Washington on Tuesday afternoon saw a female moose who was struggling to stay afloat in the Little Spokane River. The name of the couple who called the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW)) about the moose being trapped on the river struggling to go free. An officer who is employed by the WDFW decided to attempt to rescue the moose in the river even though the risk of the WDFW official getting hurt was a possibility. The factor that led the WDFW official to ask for assistance from the Pend Oreille Fire Department to assist the WDFW Officer Severin Ericksen to work together to get the moose out of the danger zone by using a lasso on the moose, clear a channel of ice and drag the moose out of the frozen ice. After the moose rested for about a period of ten minutes, Officer Ericksen took the moose to reunite with her calf to safety. The best part of the rescue mission is that teamwork between the wildlife officials and the firefighters was successful in saving the life of both the moose and her calf.