With ranchers at risk of losing their cattle to starvation after weeks of unusually heavy snowfall, the USCG and CAL FIRE loaded up helicopters with bales of hay to feed hungry cows. California tosses bales of hay off helicopters to save cattle:
"We won't know until the snow melts how many cattle have died due to these conditions. But I know this for certain, if we don't act, there's going to be way more that do die and it will be a catastrophe for our county," Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said.
"In the 1980s when the snow was so prevalent and ranchers were unable to get to the ranches, they called upon CAL FIRE and the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay to help deliver hay to those communities," Honsal said. The USCG and CAL FIRE loaded up helicopters with bales of hay the very same day, headed out to remote mountain areas where hungry cattle awaited, and pushed them out of the chopper.Officials said about 30 ranchers have reached out for
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