NEWARK (CBS SF) – Firefighters videotaped the dramatic rescue of a hawk trapped in the netting atop a gas station in Newark, on Sunday.
The rescue was videotaped by the Alameda County Fire Department.
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The two rescuers posed with the bird before Newark Police took the hawk to a clinic.
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