It wasn’t a cat stuck in the 60-foot palm tree in Miami-Dade. It was a hawk
While South Florida prepared for the hawk of cold weather winds swooping into the metropolitan area Tuesday, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue rescued an actual lost hawk from a Southwest Miami-Dade palm tree.
Fire-rescue said the hawk had been missing for a week before a 1:21 p.m. Tuesday call summoned crews to Southwest 124th Court and 259th Terrace. Equipment from MDFR Platform 34 lifted a member of Venom One up six stories to the bird.
“The hawk had a training leash on its leg that had become entangled in a palm frond,” fire-rescue said. “Crews were able to remove the hawk and return it to the grateful owner without harm.”
The agency can do nothing about the hawk chilling your bones Wednesday morning, however.
This story was originally published January 22, 2020 at 1:15 PM.
