By Steve Klamkin WPRO News
It was the morning of a faun Friday, as rescuers removed a baby deer that fell into a dry well just feet from Pond Street in Seekonk.
In an operation that took several hours, members of the Bristol County Technical Rescue Team were called to set up a tripod to hoist the faun out of the well, after a state biologist applied a dart containing a tranquilizer to the animal.
“First they darted it, put a harness around it and pulled him up through a pulley system and a tripod,” said Tom Telford, a neighbor who said deer were common in the North Seekonk neighborhood.
“I came home the other day and they were bounding through my yard. This one took a detour into a hole, but everything turned out well,” Telford said.
Seekonk Fire Lieutenant Shawn Whalen said workers coming to clean up the property at Norm’s Auto Body shop smelled deer musk, and found the deer in the uncovered hole out front, close to the edge of Pond Street.
He said the state biologist took the deer, and planned to release it into the wild, once it recovered consciousness.
