Why do trained safety (police/fire/med) risk their time and lives to save an animal on the ice? Like today's report of 2 deer on the ice on the Waltham Res. One DOA and the other put down later due to stress.

Listen I am not against animals but why not just call a hunter (or at least dart) and put the animals down right away without risk to human life. Do they consider it training time?

I wonder what the bill in $$ for the time effort of this rescue?

I think it is considered a training exercise and its good PR. Hate to think that the first attempt to save a life might be a kid who would not last nearly as long , and the bugs have not been worked out by some of these "practice runs".

Anyway , I am sure they do a safety/value of training exercise assessment before they put the rescuers in harms way.

pretty sure it is training exercise, i see the local guys doing it on a shallow pond and rescuing practicing dumbies. last year a couple horses from a farm wondered on to it, was interesting to watch. safely rescued btw

Nothing better than a live victim for training.

Just lucky some poor kid didn't fall through the ice on the other side if town while they were playing rescue Bambi ! Waste of resources and dangerous. The poor terrorized deer had to be put to sleep anyways . We spend a fortune on training. They don't need to practice on wild animals
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Ok, the fact of the matter is....We do it because if we don't, some schmuck will try to go out and get a deer for his freezer and the next thing you know.....we are rescuing him. And most of the time it ends up being a recovery. So yes, a lot of money is spent on training. If we did not train and we needed to use the equipment for an ice rescue but weren't proficient someone would complain. They would say....I can believe the fire dept let that guy freeze to death because noione knew how to save him. Thats all!

Ok, the fact of the matter is....We do it because if we don't, some schmuck will try to go out and get a deer for his freezer and the next thing you know.....we are rescuing him. And most of the time it ends up being a recovery. So yes, a lot of money is spent on training. If we did not train and we needed to use the equipment for an ice rescue but weren't proficient someone would complain. They would say....I can believe the fire dept let that guy freeze to death because noione knew how to save him. Thats all!

They threw a rope around its neck and tried to drag it out . Is that SOP :)
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No SOP for that particular rescue, but still better than putting a rope around a humans neck and pulling him out..