June 23, 2011
Fire truck hits, kills 13 geese
By SHELLEY TERRY - sterry@starbeacon.com
Star Beacon The Star Beacon Thu Jun 23, 2011, 10:07 AM EDT
PLYMOUTH — The scene of the accident is marked with blood spatters and feathers — lots of feathers — strewn along the road where the victims were hit by a fire engine.
Thirteen adult Canada geese were killed, and one was injured severely, after they were run over by the truck in the 3800 block of Plymouth-Brown Road at about 6 a.m. Tuesday.
“The (Plymouth Fire Department’s) Engine Company was en route to a motor vehicle crash on Griggs Road,” said Fire Chief William Strubbe. “The geese were on the side of the road, and the driver put on the lights and sirens to scare them off the road, but instead, they went into the road. It’s an unfortunate situation.”
Mary Featsent, 3803 Plymouth-Brown Road, said it was horrible. Her neighbors agreed.
“We didn’t know what to do; there were feathers and blood and birds,” Featsent said. “People were driving to work and trying to drive around all these geese, some of them still flapping their wings.”
Featsent said only one goose managed to make its way into her front yard, but its wing and leg were visibly broken. To make matters worse, on the return trip from the call, the fire truck ran over the birds again, she said.
Strubbe said fire trucks are large and cannot swerve off the road.
“You cannot risk the life of firefighters to avoid geese,” he said.
Strubbe said the geese were moved to the side of the road by Township Trustee Kevin Presley within 30 minutes of the accident.
Plymouth Township road superintendent Mike Wayman said that Featsent’s husband called him, and he notified the county to go by and get the birds. Wayman said, “It was a freak thing.”
County road crews arrived about two hours later and hauled away the birds, Featsent said.
Featsent believes the firefighters should have removed the birds on the return trip, rather than running over them again.
“Two hours is too long to sit on the side of the road,” she said. “It was terrible for passers-by, especially children, to see.”
The injured Canada goose in her yard finally was put down by an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper, who covered the accident on Griggs Road, Featsent said. The trooper tried to find a rescue facility or animal sanctuary for the bird, but it was too badly injured, she said.
“They were so kind and professional,” she said. “I think they deserve a lot of credit for that.”
...(Looks like a new way to hunt "sky Carp" ... CJD3 :smiley_depressive:
Fire truck hits, kills 13 geese
By SHELLEY TERRY - sterry@starbeacon.com
Star Beacon The Star Beacon Thu Jun 23, 2011, 10:07 AM EDT
PLYMOUTH — The scene of the accident is marked with blood spatters and feathers — lots of feathers — strewn along the road where the victims were hit by a fire engine.
Thirteen adult Canada geese were killed, and one was injured severely, after they were run over by the truck in the 3800 block of Plymouth-Brown Road at about 6 a.m. Tuesday.
“The (Plymouth Fire Department’s) Engine Company was en route to a motor vehicle crash on Griggs Road,” said Fire Chief William Strubbe. “The geese were on the side of the road, and the driver put on the lights and sirens to scare them off the road, but instead, they went into the road. It’s an unfortunate situation.”
Mary Featsent, 3803 Plymouth-Brown Road, said it was horrible. Her neighbors agreed.
“We didn’t know what to do; there were feathers and blood and birds,” Featsent said. “People were driving to work and trying to drive around all these geese, some of them still flapping their wings.”
Featsent said only one goose managed to make its way into her front yard, but its wing and leg were visibly broken. To make matters worse, on the return trip from the call, the fire truck ran over the birds again, she said.
Strubbe said fire trucks are large and cannot swerve off the road.
“You cannot risk the life of firefighters to avoid geese,” he said.
Strubbe said the geese were moved to the side of the road by Township Trustee Kevin Presley within 30 minutes of the accident.
Plymouth Township road superintendent Mike Wayman said that Featsent’s husband called him, and he notified the county to go by and get the birds. Wayman said, “It was a freak thing.”
County road crews arrived about two hours later and hauled away the birds, Featsent said.
Featsent believes the firefighters should have removed the birds on the return trip, rather than running over them again.
“Two hours is too long to sit on the side of the road,” she said. “It was terrible for passers-by, especially children, to see.”
The injured Canada goose in her yard finally was put down by an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper, who covered the accident on Griggs Road, Featsent said. The trooper tried to find a rescue facility or animal sanctuary for the bird, but it was too badly injured, she said.
“They were so kind and professional,” she said. “I think they deserve a lot of credit for that.”
...(Looks like a new way to hunt "sky Carp" ... CJD3 :smiley_depressive: