Firefighters Cut Trailer-Roof Hole to Rescue Cattle in Crash

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 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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