MOLINE, Ill. (AP) - Moline firefighters worked about 12 hours to save dozens of cattle from an overturned semi-trailer early Friday.
The Quad-City Times reports (https://bit.ly/1GUCAST ) a trucker carrying 80 feeder cattle - each worth about $900 - overturned about 1:45 a.m. as he pulled his rig onto Interstate 74 from John Deere Road.
Moline Fire Capt. Mick Dochtermann was first on the scene with a group of firefighters.
Some cattle were killed; others were trapped. The rest escaped and roamed the area.
Of 80 animals on the truck, 58 were saved. Dochtermann says rescue teams cut a hole in the top of the trailer and pulled the cows out.
Roger Schone operates Schone’s Equine Rescue. He was called about 2 a.m. and rounded up trailers.
The rescued cattle were examined by a veterinarian.
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