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WEST PLAINS, Mo. (AP) -- Thanks to firefighter Robbie Smith, a young drowning victim is back on its feet -- all four of them.
On Thursday night, after a thunderstorm dropped two inches of rain on the area, Smith went to a flooded bridge across Galloway Creek to see if barricades were needed.
He told The West Plains Daily Quill he saw what he thought was a dog floating downstream on its back and decided to wade out and retrieve it. He grabbed the hind legs, pulled the animal out of the water and discovered he had a fawn that wasn't breathing.
Smith said he blew three times into the deer's nostrils, and it began to breathe. He took the fawn to the fire station, where it was kept until it could be picked up by the Missouri Department of Conservation.
The fawn will eventually be returned to the wild.
On Thursday night, after a thunderstorm dropped two inches of rain on the area, Smith went to a flooded bridge across Galloway Creek to see if barricades were needed.
He told The West Plains Daily Quill he saw what he thought was a dog floating downstream on its back and decided to wade out and retrieve it. He grabbed the hind legs, pulled the animal out of the water and discovered he had a fawn that wasn't breathing.
Smith said he blew three times into the deer's nostrils, and it began to breathe. He took the fawn to the fire station, where it was kept until it could be picked up by the Missouri Department of Conservation.
The fawn will eventually be returned to the wild.
