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Floods swamp Duluth, Minn.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 17:11
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DULUTH, Minn. (AP) – Residents evacuated their homes and animals escaped from their pens at a zoo as floods fed by a steady torrential downpour struck a city in northeastern Minnesota, officials said Wednesday

Police officers helped track down a polar bear that got out of its enclosure overnight at the Lake Superior Zoo in Duluth.

“Even though it’s a large white object, it’s pretty nerve racking,” police spokesman Jim Hansen said of the chase for Berlin, the female polar bear. Zoo officials said she was darted by the zoo’s vet and placed in quarantine.

Several sheep, goats and a donkey were killed by the flooding, said Susan Wolniakowski, director of guest services.

“Sadly the zoo experienced the loss of several animals, among them many of the barnyard residents,” the zoo said in a statement.

Peter Pruett, the zoo’s director of Animal Management, said the “entire staff is devastated.”

Wolniakowski said no animals left the zoo grounds and all have been secured.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/floods/s…55710596/1

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