Firefighters make heartbreaking discovery after being called to popular fishing spot: 'It was in too much distress to survive'

Firefighters make heartbreaking discovery after being called to popular fishing spot: 'It was in too much distress to survive'

When a wild heron became tangled in a fishing line wrapped around a tree, firefighters in Temecula, California, came to its rescue. Animal control officers brought the bird to a local veterinarian for treatment, but despite their best efforts to help, it had to be euthanized humanely. "It was in too much distress to survive," a veterinarian at Care Animal Hospital told Patch. When residents in the Harveston Lake community in Temecula noticed the…