Crime & Safety
Entangled Hawk Rescued From 50-Feet Up A Tree
The cooper's hawk was ensnared in wire or string and couldn't get out of the tree in the East Bay.
ALAMEDA COUNTY, CA — Several agencies and PG&E combined their efforts to rescue a Cooper's hawk in the unincorporated area of Cherryland on Saturday afternoon.
They received a call at 2:16 p.m. about the hawk entangled in either a kite thread or fishing wire. The bird had trapped itself in a tree about 50 feet off the ground in Cherryland Park.
The firefighters requested PG&E to the scene because of heavy wind and the height of the tree and the agency arrived on the scene in a telescoping vehicle.
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A California Department of Fish and Game worker was lifted into the tree, and he freed the hawk from the wire and captured the bird.
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No one was injured in the incident, according to Alameda County fire.
— Bay City News; Image via Alameda County Sheriff's Office
