{"id":1016355,"date":"2022-03-09T20:57:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T20:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/09\/watch-elk-rescued-from-window-well-of-colorado-home\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T20:57:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T20:57:23","slug":"watch-elk-rescued-from-window-well-of-colorado-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/09\/watch-elk-rescued-from-window-well-of-colorado-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Elk rescued from window well of Colorado home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Elk-rescued-from-window-well-of-Colorado-home.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"x32g1BJ6sao\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elk rescued from window well in Eagle, Colorado\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x32g1BJ6sao?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 9 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Police and firefighters responded to a Colorado home to conduct an unusual rescue when an elk fell into a home&#8217;s window well.<\/p>\n<p>Molly Neifert said she and her family were at their home in Eagle when they heard a commotion outside their basement window about 11:30 p.m.\n<\/p>\n<p>Neifert said she was surprised to discover an elk had fallen into the window well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t believe she fit in there,&#8221; Neifert told Vail Daily. &#8220;She barely had any room to move.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neifert contacted the Eagle Police Department, and responding officers contacted Colorado Parks and Wildlife, but no wildlife officers were available.<\/p>\n<p>Police and personnel from the Greater Eagle Fire Protection District hatched a plan to rescue the animal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She did break the window, so we were concerned that if she stayed in there much longer she could cut herself,&#8221; Neifert said.<\/p>\n<p>The rescuers wrapped the elk in a blanket and hoisted the trapped animal out of the 6-foot-deep window well. The elk rested for a short time before running off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were all so relieved to see her quickly run away, she didn&#8217;t look hurt at all,&#8221; Neifert said.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers responded to a similar situation in January, when a Breckenridge resident reported an even larger animal &#8212; a moose &#8212; had fallen into a window well. The moose broke through the window and became trapped in the home&#8217;s basement.\n<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officers were able to tranquilize the moose and remove its antlers so it could be carried up the basement stairs and out of the house.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 9 (UPI) &#8212; Police and firefighters responded to a Colorado home to conduct an unusual rescue when an elk fell into a home&#8217;s window well. Molly Neifert said she and her family were at their home in Eagle when they heard a commotion outside their basement window about 11:30 p.m. Neifert said she was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1016356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}