A team of forest rangers in New York state have rescued a moose who became trapped in an icy lake. New York conservation officials say a passerby reported seeing the moose fall through into the lake in a forested area near the Vermont border,

DEC forest rangers and environmental conservation officers had a dilemma Thursday. A moose fell through the ice of an Adirondack lake, 200 feet from shore.

Police called in the help of trained DEC staff to get the moose out of the water. DEC Rangers Evan Nahor and Matt Savarie used jet sleds to keep themselves from falling through the ice as they cut a passage through the ice from where the moose fell into the water to the shore.

A bull moose that broke through the ice and became trapped in frigid waters last week in the central Adirondacks has a new lease on life. The state Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers and Environmental Conservation Police Officers rescued the animal after it was reported that the massive animal had broken

The bull moose had fallen into a lake in the Adirondacks and been in the frigid waters for about two hours before rescuers arrived and used a chain saw to free it.

A moose was rescued by forest rangers after it fell through the ice into a frozen lake in the Adirondacks, New York.

A bull moose that fell through lake ice in the Adirondack Mountains was saved by New York conservation officials in a laborious cold-water rescue. The moose fell through the ice around 11 a.m. Thursday,