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Rescuers Reach Russian Meteorologists Trapped by Polar Bears
Source: NBC News
SEP 14 2016, 6:14 AM ET
Rescuers Reach Russian Meteorologists Trapped by Polar Bears
by ALEXEY EREMENKO
MOSCOW — The siege has finally been broken.
Five meteorologists who were trapped for two weeks after polar bears surrounded their weather station are now able to leave the building after the creatures were chased away, their supervisor told NBC News early Wednesday.
They had been holed up in their facility on the Izvestiy TSIK Islands — around 2,800 miles from Moscow — after around a dozen of the animals moved into the area.
The meteorologists ran out of signal flares that they had been using to scare away the bears, which had previously eaten their guard dog.
Russian officials had feared the siege could last for another month, the time it would take for a specially dispatched ship to reach the islands in the Kara Sea, high in the Arctic Circle.
But on Tuesday night a research vessel took a detour to assist the incarcerated weathermen, station supervisor Vasily Shevchenko told NBC News.
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Rescuers Reach Russian Meteorologists Trapped by Polar Bears
by ALEXEY EREMENKO
MOSCOW — The siege has finally been broken.
Five meteorologists who were trapped for two weeks after polar bears surrounded their weather station are now able to leave the building after the creatures were chased away, their supervisor told NBC News early Wednesday.
They had been holed up in their facility on the Izvestiy TSIK Islands — around 2,800 miles from Moscow — after around a dozen of the animals moved into the area.
The meteorologists ran out of signal flares that they had been using to scare away the bears, which had previously eaten their guard dog.
Russian officials had feared the siege could last for another month, the time it would take for a specially dispatched ship to reach the islands in the Kara Sea, high in the Arctic Circle.
But on Tuesday night a research vessel took a detour to assist the incarcerated weathermen, station supervisor Vasily Shevchenko told NBC News.
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Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/rescuers-reach-russian-meteorologists-trapped-polar-bears-n648021