Watch: Struggling baby deer rescued from Illinois river

July 9 (UPI) — 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…

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