A team of forest rangers in New York state have rescued a moose who became trapped in an icy lake. New York conservation officials say a passerby reported seeing the moose fall through into the lake in a forested area near the Vermont border,

DEC forest rangers and environmental conservation officers had a dilemma Thursday. A moose fell through the ice of an Adirondack lake, 200 feet from shore.

According to local authorities, a bull moose was successfully rescued after falling through the ice at Lake Abanakee on January 16.

Police called in the help of trained DEC staff to get the moose out of the water. DEC Rangers Evan Nahor and Matt Savarie used jet sleds to keep themselves from falling through the ice as they cut a passage through the ice from where the moose fell into the water to the shore.

"There’s no training manual on how to get a moose out of the ice," said one of the DEC officers involved in the rescue.

State Department of Environmental Conservation officials rescued a moose that had broken through the ice on Lake Abanakee in Hamilton County. Dressed in cold-water rescue gear, the officers ventured out onto the ice.