""I knew my day was about to change," said Poleschook, 81."
""But at a certain point the deer was so far out that it made more sense to try and walk, which isn't ideal when the ice is thin," said Gallagher, who had a rope tethered to him that was connected to a tree on the shore."
""That day the ice was particularly thin," said Gallagher, who was wearing a technical suit that would protect him from the cold if he went through the ice. "It's been a pretty warm winter.""
""She was obviously very frightened and didn't want anything to do with me," Gallagher said."
Daniel Poleschook Jr., 81, spotted a deer stranded on the ice in Washington's Loon Lake about 500 feet from shore. He and his wife, Ginger, 83, called the Department of Fish and Wildlife and the local fire department after noting prior rescue experience with a moose. Neighbors gathered and a teenager prepared to attempt a rescue when firefighter Gavyn Gallagher, 26, and his team arrived. Gallagher had ice-rescue training but not experience with wild animals. Wearing a protective technical suit, he crawled on a backboard flotation device, then stood and walked with a rope tethered to a shore tree, covered the deer's eyes, lassoed her, and restrained her by hugging from behind.
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