Firefighters and animal control officers teamed up in Illinois to rescue a young deer in danger of drowning in an Aurora-area river.
The City of Aurora said in a news release that the local fire department and the Aurora Animal Care and Control Division responded to the Fox River on Wednesday morning on a report of a fawn in distress.
The incident began when “city staff on the Downer Place Bridge in downtown Aurora noticed a young fawn appear out of a drainage pipe in the Fox River,” officials wrote.
Rescuers went out on a boat and were able to pluck the struggling fawn out of the river.
The fawn was taken to the Kane Area Rehabilitation and Education for Wildlife Center, where it was named Jonas in honor of the firefighter who pulled him out of the water.
