WATCH: Deer Rescued From Frozen Pond

PUYALLUP, WA - A deer that was stuck in a frozen pond Thursday morning is doing fine following a heroic team-effort save by Central Pierce Fire & Rescue, the Pierce County Sheriff's Office, and the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Central Pierce personnel were on scene at the South Hill-area pond just before 9:30 a.m. Feb. 7, according to Twitter. It's unclear how long the deer may have been in the water before rescuers arrived, but they had the wayward animal back on land within half-an-hour.

It took five Pierce County deputies, eight firefighters, and two fish and wildlife officers to pull the deersicle across the frozen pond on a stretcher, where a rescuer finally got hold of the freezing animal and pulled it back to shore.

Exhausted, the deer couldn't even stand up, Central Pierce Fire & Rescue Capt. Darrin Shaw told Patch. The poor thing laid there for 45 minutes, too beat to flee. Instead, it allowed the team to treat its cuts with antibiotics.

"After an hour, the guys picked it up and it ran off," Shaw said. "Well, trotted off anyway."

Shaw shared video of the rescue on the agency's Facebook and Twitter accounts, to the community's mass applaud.

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