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Written by Amy Mayhew
Monday, January 16 2012

A NOCFA rescue crew works to save a fallen deer from the icy surface of Tipsico Lake In Rose Township.#phocagallerypiclens 2-phocagallerypiclenscode-Sports-Outdoors/deer almost in the boat.jpg
A NOCFA rescue crew works to s...

ROSE TOWNSHIP, Michigan – When the first responders for North Oakland County Fire Authority heard that a deer was trapped on the icy surface of Tipsico Lake this week, well, they just couldn’t just let it slide – either time!

In the span of just five days, Chief Jeremy Lintz said his department responded to two separate incidents in which a deer was stranded on the extremely slippery surface of frozen Tipsico Lake.

Safely off the ice, NOCFA resuers pause for a photo op with the rescured deer before setting it free.#phocagallerypiclens 3-phocagallerypiclenscode-Sports-Outdoors/deer off ice.jpg
Safely off the ice, NOCFA resu...






The first call was received on the afternoon of Jan.10. “NOCFA received a call from a resident on Tipsico Trail that a deer had been trapped on the ice for several hours about 200 yards off shore on the east side of the lake,” Lintz said. History repeated itself five days later on Sunday, Jan. 15, when another resident called NOCFA, this time to report a stranded deer about 100 yards out on the west side of the lake.


A NOCFA staffer watches as the deer is relased into the woods.#phocagallerypiclens 3-phocagallerypiclenscode-Sports-Outdoors/deer release.jpg
A NOCFA staffer watches as the...
“NOCFA responded to both of these incidents with crews and ice rescue equipment and safely removed the deer from the ice,” Lintz said, adding that neither deer had fallen through the ice, but that both had slipped and fallen on the slippery surface of the lake, and was unable to get up on their own. “It was so slippery, our rescue crews had a hard time just walking on it,” he added.  Lintz said NOCFA responds to non-emergencies like this, and will make an attempt to rescue animals in situations where it is safe enough to do so.   Lintz said NOCFA has responded to stranded deer on the ice in the past, but that the last time an incident like this occurred was more than five years ago.

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+4 #1 SHEM001 Tuesday, January 17 2012 6:51pm
God Bless you guys!We are all Gods creatures.Doesn't matter how big or small!Very kind and heartwarming story!!
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