Official Report…Shoreline below Pepe’ekeo Animal Rescue of Calf

5:45am, Friday, 10/22/2021

2 FD apparatus; 8 HFD personnel

The Fire Department was notified by HPD’s animal control division of a calf that had fallen off of a cliff and could not be retrieved. HFD’s Rescue team that fortunately consisted of a Fire Rescue Specialist with extensive ranching experience, lassoed the calf and restrained it. Rescue Co. 2 personnel then used a high-angle rope rescue system to hoist the 200 pound calf 60 feet up the cliff face to a ledge where they were then able to walk it to a safe location. The calf was then safely released into it’s pasture where it ran off unscathed.

200 # calf that had fallen off an 80 foot cliff to the shoreline below. Small bay with vertical cliffs on all sides, no possible means of egress