Firefighters in Germany are getting praise from animal lovers around the world after a life saved: that of a very fat rat.
An animal rescuer called the local volunteer fire department for backup Sunday when he couldn’t free a sewer rat lodged in a manhole cover in Bensheim.
First spotted by a young girl, the rat “had a lot of winter flab” and was stuck at the hip in a small hole, animal rescuer Michael Sehr says, per the BBC and Deutsche Welle. “There was no going forward or back.”
The eight or so firefighters managed to free the rat, who was unharmed and released into a park, with use of a “fixation rod” and elbow grease, reports the Local.
