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Families Spend Christmas Eve Rescuing 6 Elk Trapped in Frozen River After Falling Through Ice (LOOK)
More than two dozen people gave up hours of warm festivities at home on Christmas Eve to rescue six elk that were trapped in the ice.
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More than two dozen people gave up many hours of warm festivities at their homes on Christmas Eve to rescue six elk that were trapped in the ice.
Most of a large herd of elk had made it across the river safely, but 12 had fallen through the ice on the Kettle River near Barstow, Washington.
Rylee Stuart’s husband grabbed a kayak and rallied friends to go back to the scene where he first saw the animals struggling that morning.
“When we got up there, there was a group of people,” Stuart told KXLY-TV Channel 4 News in Spokane.
“They had one [elk] on the way to the shore and they one to the shore already. There were still 10 left.”
Someone had reportedly called the Washington Fish and Game commission for assistance and were told the agency would just ‘let nature take its course’.