‘999 What’s your emergency? My bull is stuck in a bog!’

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Fire and Rescue teams across Wales are used to unique missions, but it’s not every day that they’re tasked with rescuing an 800kg bull from out of a bog. 9 year old Bruce became stuck, and it took teams of firefighters, vets and local friends and neighbours hours to get him back, safe and sound.

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00:00Fire and rescue teams are used to emergencies that aren't fires and they're no strangers to

00:08helping people stuck in difficult situations but it's not every day that they're called to rescue

00:12animals and it's certainly not usually an 800 kilogram bull but that was the unusual job the

00:17mid and west wales fire and rescue crews faced on sunday when nine-year-old bruce a stock bull

00:23became trapped in a bog near llan for hangel nant bran in brecon the call came in just after

00:29half past 11 in the morning and fire crews from brecon and ponte dowie stations were quickly

00:34mobilized bringing with them an all-terrain vehicle a pickup truck and the specialist animal rescue

00:39team trained for large animal emergencies bruce had sunk into the bog up to his chest unable to move

00:47or help himself so the rescue effort was anything but straightforward it took more than two and a

00:52half hours with fire crews a team from hondi vets and bruce's owners friends and neighbors all working

00:57together to help free him firefighters used animal rescue lines slings straps and even trowels to

01:05carefully dig around him and lift him to safety all while keeping bruce calm and preventing further

01:10injury by just before half past five in the afternoon he was finally free his owner marilyn jones

01:15thanked everyone involved saying that bruce had already been for a long walk and was now happily

01:20back in his field grazing and recovering from his muddy ordeal the fire and rescue teams left the scene

01:26around quarter to six no doubt muddy exhausted and glad that this unusual mission had a happy ending

01:31a cat stuck up a tree is one thing but a bull stuck in a bog that was certainly a new one

01:38for this team james peach watkins reporting for local tv

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