Pets
Danvers Fire Crew Rescues Cockatoo On The Loose
Firefighter John Hodgkins was able to secure the wily bird that got out of a home and flew to a tree in the backyard.
![A grown-up version of this baby cockatoo, which is from the Zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, was rescued from a tree in Danvers on Sunday.](https://patch.com/img/cdn20/users/23254324/20210712/115533/styles/patch_image/public/cockatoo___12115319227.jpg)
DANVERS, MA — It wasn't a cat stuck in a tree, but a bird on the loose in the backyard that drew out Danvers fire crews on Sunday.
Danvers fire Local 2038 said crews responded to the unusual call of a Cockatoo that had escaped someone's house and flown to a tree in their backyard.
Firefighter John Hodgkins was among those who responded with Tower 1 and was able to bring the bird back down and safely inside "without incident."
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(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)
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