Rescuers with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Fee and Jacksonville Hearth Rescue work to free a manatee trapped within the mud banks of the St. Johns River at low tide. (Photograph courtesy: Jacksonville Hearth Rescue Division)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Rescuers helped free a manatee that bought caught in a river’s mud banks at low tide in north Florida.
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The Jacksonville Hearth Rescue Division mentioned the manatee turned caught within the mud banks alongside the St. Johns River.
“There was a protracted path the place the manatee tried to get into deep water, but it surely simply wasn’t agile sufficient to avoid wasting itself,” firefighters mentioned.
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The rescue, which occurred on the night of Jan. 6, took a number of hours as firefighters assisted Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Fee crews with releasing the stranded sea cow.
On Tuesday, the company launched uncooked footage of the rescue on its YouTube web page.
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Rescuers needed to lay out board walkways with a purpose to entry the manatee within the mud. They then cradled it and used a winch to convey the massive mammal again throughout to the land, the place they then lifted it right into a truck.
Rescuers with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Fee and Jacksonville Hearth Rescue work to free a manatee trapped within the mud banks of the St. Johns River at low tide. (Photograph courtesy: Jacksonville Hearth Rescue Division)
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The manatee was then transported to the Jacksonville Zoo to be checked out by veterinarians, handled and ready for launch again to the river.
“Not your on a regular basis rescue, however comfortable to have the ability [to] help,” fireplace rescue officers wrote on their Fb web page.
A very merry Christmas to South Florida. (Photo by Darryl Oumi/Getty Image
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care As South Florida won the Hawaii Bowl by a hair.
As much of the nation’s children were sleeping with dreams of Santa, the Bulls were winning one of the wildest games of bowl season, a five-overtime, 41-39 thriller over San José State in the Hawaii Bowl. It was the NCAA’s first bowl or postseason game to go more than three overtimes.
The game nearly ended in a back-and-forth regulation, however, as South Florida got the ball back with less than a minute left and down by three points. A good punt return and pair of first downs got them into field goal territory, at which point kicker John Cannon got a charitable bounce to tie the game.
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Overtime then developed into a classic college football shootout, with the teams exchanging touchdowns, then field goals, then two-point conversions, then failed two-point conversions. With each set of plays, the game inched toward midnight ET, until it was finally Christmas for much of the country.
The game ended a half-hour later, when USF converted its two-point attempt and got the stop it needed.
USF got the win despite being outgained 441-291 and gaining only 1.6 yards per rush. Its biggest plays came on special teams and defense, including a 93-yard kick return touchdown by Ta’Ron Keith. USF quarterback Bryce Archie finished 24-of-34 with 235 passing yards and an interception.
It was the kind of game designed for the people who want to spend the final hours of Christmas Eve cheering for a tug-of-war between two Group of 5 programs. The win gives South Florida back-to-back winning seasons and bowl wins, having gone 7-6 last year with a win in the Boca Raton Bowl.
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At least one person was killed and six others injured when a boat exploded in a marina in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Three people suffered traumatic injuries. Cristian Benavides reports.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A boat explosion at a South Florida marina has left one person dead and five others injured, officials said.
The explosion occurred Monday night at the Lauderdale Marina, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said in a social media post.
Rescue workers transported five people to local hospitals, three with traumatic injuries, officials said. A sixth person was found dead in the water several hours later by the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
Fire rescue officials said they didn’t immediately know what caused the explosion.
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