West Yorkshire Fire Service’s Technical Rescue Officer received an unusual call-out, after sheep grazing in a field behind a row of terraced cottages leaped over a 5ft gap and onto the tiled roof.
Arriving in Newmillerdam, near Wakefield where the sheep had been stuck for several hours, before the Fire Service was alerted, Station Commander - Damian Cameron found one of the animals precariously close to a 25ft drop to the ground.
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Then after one sheep leaped, a number of them followed. Damian’s specialist animal husbandry training came in handy in coaxing the animals down, after building a makeshift bridge with a local landowner.
Damian Cameron said, “Some calls are stranger than others! It was a very unusual job. I have had some strange ones involving animals before, including a cow on a balcony, but I have never had sheep on a roof before. The priority was safety and I’m pleased to say after a couple of hours all the animals were brought back down to the field.”