Posted by JerryS on July 15, 2015 at 12:14:22 from (98.80.98.245):
How would you go about extricating 80 grown cattle from a double-decker livestock hauler that has been flipped on its side with the rear doors jammed? That's the dilemma local authorities (Shreveport) faced yesterday when a lost driver tried to make a turnaround out of a store parking lot and cut too short. He was hauling the cattle from a nearby ranch, enroute to Colorado. He was only a quarter-mile short of his link-up with an interstate; why he exited from a major state highway onto a parallel service road in a busy commercial area is unknown to me; he's probably now wondering the same thing too.
The incident shut down the major highway and the service road for most of the day while police, sheriff's deputies (including the Sheriff's livestock patrol unit) and firemen worked to straighten out the mess. To me, looking at it from a distance, the logistics of the thing seemed mind-boggling: where do you quickly find enough wranglers, trailers and equipment to attack this problem?
Apparently they figured it out. They used jaws-of-life gear to open holes in the trailer. How they got the individual cattle out and into waiting gooseneck trailers, I don't know. The fire department, in addition to loaning their jaws, kept the cattle cooled with a spray of water throughout the ordeal. I understand that 24 cattle were killed in the wreck or put down. I wish I could provide more details but my local newspaper has this philosophy that if the TV cameras cover an event prior to their press time, the event never happened or was unworthy of their attention; "tree falls in the forest" sort of reasoning.
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