From Hillsborough County firefighter to specialist in wildlife animal removal
Chris Wirt shares his daily encounters with raccoons, monkeys, rodents, bats and other wildlife animals
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A squirrel explores a fallen tree near Chris Wirt, 44, of Lutz, on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Tarpon Springs. Wirt is the owner of AAAC Wildlife Removal of Tampa. He wears a large gator tooth, from a 12 8 gator. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times ]
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Chris Wirt, retired from a career as a Hillsborough County firefighter, is the franchise owner of AAAC Wildlife Removal of Tampa Bay, which specializes in removing nuisance animals, such as rats, bats, squirrels, raccoons and rattlesnakes, from peopleâs homes.
Florida Kids Find Bald Eagle Trapped in Fishing Line, Hook Through Its Beak, Rush to Its Rescue
A pair of children were quick to come to the rescue of a bald eagle they discovered tangled in fishing line in Florida. The line had tangled around the bird’s wing, and a fishing hook was stuck in the eagle’s beak.
The two children, from Pasco County, brought the bird to a fire station for help.
“[We] heard a knock on the station door around 4 PM this afternoon,” the Pasco County Fire Rescue stated on Jan. 7. “When Driver Engineer Jerry Brown opened the door, he was greeted by two kids holding an injured bald eagle.”
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LAKELAND, Fla. â Efforts to clean up a Polk County lake is underway after an endangered species had to be rescued.
Lake Parker in Lakeland is a nature lovers paradise, and home to a vast array of native animals, but the lake has become a dumping ground for discarded tires, plastic bottles and trash.
âPeople just don t want to get it to the garbage can or the right place, so they think a city park they can hide it. Unfortunately, they hide it, thatâs the animal s environment thatâs their home,â said Kris Porter, Director of Owl s Nest Sanctuary for Wildlife.