"“She was obviously very frightened and didn’t want anything to do with me,” said firefighter Gavyn Gallagher."
"Daniel Poleschook Jr. looked out of his window at Washington state’s Loon Lake and saw something unusual: A deer was stranded in the middle of it.
It looked like the deer was trying to stand, but much like Bambi, was having trouble getting traction on the ice.
“I knew my day was about to change,” said Poleschook, 81.
He and his wife, Ginger, 83, aren’t strangers to wildlife rescues: The two helped rescue a moose that fell through the lake more than a decade ago. But this deer was much farther out from shore — about 500 feet, they estimated."
Maggie Penman reports for the Washington Post February 8, 2026.
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