A rescue mission — dubbed “Operation Noah's Ark” — was launched earlier this week to catch, cage and ferry 275 parrots from Pine Island, Florida.
Parrots sit in cages waiting to be transported to the mainland in Pine Island, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. Volunteers helped evacuate hundreds of birds from the Malama Manu Sanctuary to escape damage from Hurricane Ian.
So a rescue mission — dubbed “Operation Noah’s Ark” — was launched earlier this week to catch, cage and ferry the birds off the island, as a condition to persuade Peratino and Stepp to leave the island. “You don’t know what we’ve been through here. We had four feet of water in the house, damned-near drowned,” Peratino said, before succumbing to tears.
While the focus of many search and rescue missions has been on human life, there have also been pet rescues. “It’s been nuts,” said James Judge, who owns the boat “Slice of Life,” which led the small flotilla of rescue boats.
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