25 firefighters dispatched to save a plastic swan
A team of 25 firefighters were recently dispatched to rescue a stranded swan from a frozen pond… only to discover it was plastic.
The 999 call had come in when a passer-by in Straubing, Germany saw the bird and assumed it was trapped in frozen ice.
Attending firefighters say they then had to search for ages to find the 'bird' and get to the middle of the lake where there was dangerously thin ice.
And it was only then that discovered the bird was actualy made of plastic and had been left there by fishermen to scare away other birds.
Lucking on the bright side, officers said that no-one was hurt in the wasted rescue mission and that they were glad to have got a bit of training in.
The 999 call had come in when a passer-by in Straubing, Germany saw the bird and assumed it was trapped in frozen ice.
Attending firefighters say they then had to search for ages to find the 'bird' and get to the middle of the lake where there was dangerously thin ice.
And it was only then that discovered the bird was actualy made of plastic and had been left there by fishermen to scare away other birds.
Lucking on the bright side, officers said that no-one was hurt in the wasted rescue mission and that they were glad to have got a bit of training in.