After worried Munich residents report: deer drives through the city in a fire truck
Created: 05/19/2022Updated: 05/19/2022 10:31 am
By: Lukas Schierlinger
The Munich fire brigade took care of the animal.
© Fire Department Munich
The Munich fire brigade had to move out on Tuesday for an unusual operation.
A deer was in distress in the Auer Mühlbach.
Munich - deer in the water!
On Tuesday afternoon (May 17), numerous passers-by noticed the exhausted animal in the Auer Mühlbach.
"Several calls then reached the integrated control center," reports the Munich fire department in a press release.
Several walkers kept an eye on the animal until emergency services arrived.
Deer gets into trouble in Munich - and is transported away in a fire engine
"The crew of an emergency fire engine took over the site and accompanied the deer downstream until the firefighters were able to pull it onto the bank with a stick," the rescuers describe the following measures.
Then they pulled the completely exhausted animal ashore and wrapped it in a blanket.
A fire brigade employee, who is also a hunter, examined the deer.
Since it was unharmed, it was transported in proper style to the Perlacher forest in a fire engine.
After a brief recovery period, the rescuers released her there.
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It is not known why the deer got into such a predicament.
It was not until May 2021 that a "strange object" had to be rescued from the Schwabinger Bach (according to the first description by eyewitnesses).
The exhausted animal had also turned out to be a deer at the time.
