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Elephant seal rescued from Whidbey Island storm drain
By Q13 News Staff article
LANGLEY, Wash. - Emergency crews were called to Whidbey Island for a rescue on Tuesday, but it wasn t a human in need of a rescue.
Just before 7:30 p.m., South Whidbey Fire/EMS, the Island County Sheriff s Office and the Langley Police Department were called to Old Beach Road in the Mutiny Bay area for reports of an elephant seal caught trapped in a vault of a stormwater drainage system in the lawn of a condominium complex.
According to South Whidbey Fire/EMS, the vault is connected to Mutiny Bay by a large pipe, and the seal, known as Elwood, likely came through that pipe to get into the vault but was unable to get back to the bay that way.
Seal rescued from storm drain on Whidbey Island KIRO 7 News Staff
Crews rescued from a storm drain earlier this week on Whidbey Island.
On Tuesday night, crews responded to a report of a seal caught in a storm drain near Old Beach Road in the Mutiny Bay area.
When crews from South Whidbey Fire/EMS, Island County Sheriff’s Office, Langley Police Department and the Orca Network arrived, they found a young elephant seal, also known as Elwood, trapped in a vault of a stormwater drainage system in the lawn of a condominium complex, officials said.
According to an official from Orca Network, Elwood appeared exhausted from treading water.