A spokesman said the branch looked strikingly like an iguana from the ground
'Iguana' rescue 60 feet up tree
September 23, 2008
Firefighters went to rescue a 60ft-high tree branch in Cove after they mistook it for a trapped iguana on Friday.
A crew from Basingstoke used a 25ft aerial ladder to climb the tree and realised what it was actually a branch when they were close enough.
A spokesman said the branch looked strikingly like the animal, wich is native to the Caribbean and South and Central America, when seen from the ground.
He said: “When they got nearer they could see it was just the branch dangling in the wind.
“We take animal rescues seriously but in this case it was a false alarm.”
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