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Apparently, having a moose(驼鹿) get stuck inside your home is something that happens often if you live near Anchorage, Alaska. No matter how common it may be, Kenai Peninsula firefighters couldn’t believe what happened when a call came in requesting their help to remove a 500-pound baby moose from the basement of a nearby home.

Alaska Wildlife Trooper Joseph Morris was one of the experts called to the scene, along with six members of the Kenai Peninsula fire department. Once there, they quickly determined that a 1-year-old moose weighing “only” about 500-pounds was eating some leaves near the window when he fell in, breaking the window and landing one story down in the home’s basement. A biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was able to use a powerful drug to tranquilize the moose, which made him calm but did not put him to sleep. As the firefighters filtered into the basement, the moose was alert but calm. Firefighters put their heads together to come up with a way to transport the heavy animal out of the house, settling on using a stretcher(担架) intended for larger humans. It took six strong men to carry the moose out of the home.

While moose are common in Alaska, being up close and personal with one is an experience even the most experienced firefighters won’t soon forget. “I can’t even believe it,” Kenai Peninsula firefighter Gunnar Romatz said of the peculiar rescue. “Luckily, he was conscious enough to honestly help us out a little bit,” Gunnar continued. “All the while, this moose is just picking its head up, and you’re two inches(英寸) away from this moose, you know? So we’re like, ‘How are you?’ And it just kind of looked at us, ‘Haven’t been in this situation before, you know.’ Us either!”

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