TOTOWA - Members of the Totowa Fire Department had to use a hydraulic spreader tool to free a deer trapped between the bars of a steel fence surrounding a cemetery.

Firefighters were called to the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery shortly after 6 a.m. on Sunday on a report of a deer wedged halfway through the bars of the fence.

The spreader tool, powered by a fire engine, was used to free the animal.

In a video posted to YouTube, firefighters can be seen placing a blanket over the deer's head to keep it calm as they separated the bars.

After the bars are separated the deer is freed and is nearly trapped a second time as it heads back into the fence.

The deer ended up wandering away along the outside of the cemetery fence.

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