With a chainsaw, they carved a path in the ice — which was between one to four inches thick — so the moose would be able to swim to the shore. They were prepared in case one of the rescuers ...

DEC officials used a chainsaw to cut through the ice path towards shore, allowing the moose to free itself. The ice thickness varied from one to four inches, “so it made cutting it with a ...

New York environmental conservation police officers and forest rangers used a chainsaw to cut through ice to save a freezing moose that had fallen through the ice on Lake Abanakee in Hamilton County.

They used a chainsaw to cut through the ice, which varied from 4 to 1 inch thick, Savarie said. Getting the moose to follow the path they cut out didn’t come easy, he said. They tried poking the ...

According to a DEC press release, a bystander reported seeing the moose fall through the ice and struggle to get out of the water. In response, forest rangers ventured onto the ice, using a chainsaw ...

There’s no training manual for getting a moose out of the ice,” said Lt. Robert Higgins, a conservation police officer for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ...