Fire and Rescue teams across Wales are used to unique missions, but it’s not every day that they’re tasked with rescuing an 800kg bull from out of a bog. 9 year old Bruce became stuck, and it took teams of firefighters, vets and local friends and neighbours hours to get him back, safe and sound.
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00:00Fire and rescue teams are used to emergencies that aren't fires and they're no strangers to
00:08helping people stuck in difficult situations but it's not every day that they're called to rescue
00:12animals and it's certainly not usually an 800 kilogram bull but that was the unusual job the
00:17mid and west wales fire and rescue crews faced on sunday when nine-year-old bruce a stock bull
00:23became trapped in a bog near llan for hangel nant bran in brecon the call came in just after
00:29half past 11 in the morning and fire crews from brecon and ponte dowie stations were quickly
00:34mobilized bringing with them an all-terrain vehicle a pickup truck and the specialist animal rescue
00:39team trained for large animal emergencies bruce had sunk into the bog up to his chest unable to move
00:47or help himself so the rescue effort was anything but straightforward it took more than two and a
00:52half hours with fire crews a team from hondi vets and bruce's owners friends and neighbors all working
00:57together to help free him firefighters used animal rescue lines slings straps and even trowels to
01:05carefully dig around him and lift him to safety all while keeping bruce calm and preventing further
01:10injury by just before half past five in the afternoon he was finally free his owner marilyn jones
01:15thanked everyone involved saying that bruce had already been for a long walk and was now happily
01:20back in his field grazing and recovering from his muddy ordeal the fire and rescue teams left the scene
01:26around quarter to six no doubt muddy exhausted and glad that this unusual mission had a happy ending
01:31a cat stuck up a tree is one thing but a bull stuck in a bog that was certainly a new one
01:38for this team james peach watkins reporting for local tv