MES dispatcher service received a call about a hawk who got entangled in branches of a 30-meter poplar tree and could not free himself from there. Crows took advantage of the situation and began mercilessly peck the little hawk. The Day found out about this situation from Pavlo Vasylenko, spokesman of the Chief Territorial MES Department in Lviv oblast.
The married couple who sheltered, nurtured the bird, and tried to prepare the bird for wild life asked the rescue crew to get the bird from the tree. Young people taught the hawk to hunt and during one of such training sessions the bird got into trouble: the little hawk tangled itself tightly to the branch of the huge poplar tree with the ropes attached to his legs. The crew of ten rescue workers went to help out the bird.
MES men released the hawk after they managed to set the 53-meter ladder between the electrical wires. In order to free the trapped bird the rescuers had to cut a few branches with a hand saw. The bird, perhaps understanding the complexity of the operation, was calm and did not try to resist.
The rescue operation lasted for nearly two hours. “We worked for free because we freed the bird listed in the Red Book,” stressed Vasylenko. The track record of rescuing animals includes rescued cows, horses, goats, pigs, dogs, and cats. For example, recently during fire fighting on Lychakivska Street firefighters pulled a barely conscious cat: “If we hadn’t pulled the cat out of the fire the poor thing would have suffocated.”
