“Days like this, I feel like I’ve made a difference in the world,” Springfield Police Officer Matthew Vorse said.
Officers rescue a baby deer and reunite it with its mother
Police officers rescue a baby deer trapped in a rain-soaked backyard pool and return it to its mother for a touching reunion in Springfield, Missouri.
A true act of kindness was caught on camera last month when a Missouri police officer reunited a baby deer with its worried mother.
On the evening of May 20, three Springfield Police Department officers responded to a call of a fawn stuck inside an empty swimming pool in Springfield, Missouri. Too small to scale the pool’s sides, the fawn was unable to make its way out on its own.
In a body camera video that had garnered 71,000 views on Facebook as of June 2, Springfield Police Officer Matthew Vorse is seen dropping into the pool, scooping up the fawn, and walking it over to a grassy field to be reunited with its eagerly-bleating mother.
“Days like this, I feel like I’ve made a difference in the world,” Vorse said with a laugh, heard from his body camera.
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