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(KARE 11) – The job can get a bit wild when you’re a deputy working in a river town.
Just ask Sergeant Scott Powers.
The Goodhue County Deputy is a water patrol and rescue specialist, and those rescues involve animals more often than people. That was the case Thursday when a Red Wing resident flagged him down around 3:30 p.m., and told him that a young deer had been stuck on the ice of the Mississippi River all day, and couldn’t seem to get off.
Deputy Powers drove down to the river, spotted the deer laying on the ice, and then called his counterpart across the river in Pierce County, Wisconsin. Recreation Patrol Deputy Jeremy Brookshaw showed up with his airboat, the two deputies launched it and piloted it to where the little deer was stranded. After nosing the boat onto the ice Deputy Powers climbed off, approached the deer, and then pulled her into shore.
By that time Deputy Brookshaw had climbed off the boat. He picked the young female up, walked into the woods and set her down. The men expected that she would lay down after her ordeal, but the deer stood up and wandered away.
