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WEBVTT >> SUMMER REPORTS THEY WERE NOT PROTECTING EACH OTHER. >> A PICTURE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS. PASSERBY STOPPED AND STARED. >> I WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST PERSON HERE. THEY WERE STUCK TOGETHER IN THE DRAIN. ONE HAD ITS CLAW IN THE OTHER ONE. >> ONE FLEW OFF WHILE THE OTHER SUNKEN THE DRAIN >> WE THOUGHT IT WAS STUCK. AS SOON AS ONE OF THE WILDLIFE PEOPLE GOT CLOSE THEY FLEW AWAY. IT WAS ALMOST LIKE THEY WERE WAITING FOR IT. >> THE SECOND BIRD BADLY INJURED. >> HOW'D YOU THINK IT STARTED? >> THERE HAS TO BE A NEST. SOMEBODY DIDN'T BELONG IN THIS TERRITORY SHOWED UP. >> THEY HANG ON FOR DEAR LIFE. >> THEY FELL IN THE DRAINAGE? >> YES. >> WE GOT HER ON PAIN MEDS. >> THEY WILL NOT SAY THE EXACT LOCATION. WE ARE TOLD THE EAGLE HAD SOME SERIOUS PUNCTURES. IT IS EXPECTED TO BE OK.

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A bald eagle is safe after it and another eagle were seen trapped in a storm drain in Orlando on Thursday. Video shows rescue crews arriving to protect the birds. It was a picture worth a thousand words: The nation's emblem two-fold, trapped in a drain on Goldenrod Road near Curry Ford Road as people stopped and stared. "I was probably the fifth person here, and when I came here, the two birds were stuck together in the drain. One had its claw in the other, and the one they rescued was bleeding," a witness told WESH 2 News. After working to free the birds, one flew off, while the other sunk deeper into the drain. "We thought it was stuck, but as soon as one of the wildlife people got close, they flew away, so it's almost like it was waiting to see if it could finish the job," the witness said. The second bird, believed to be a female, was freed, but badly injured. Bird specialists with the Audobon Center for Birds of Prey stepped in to help. "There's got to be a nest around here, a territory. And somebody that didn't belong in this territory showed up and the other said, 'You don't belong here,' and the other said, 'Um, you sure?'" rehabilitation supervisor Dianna Flynt told WESH 2 News. Hours later, the process of patching up the injured bird had already begun. "We've got her on pain meds and anti-inflammatories for all the swelling and (are) going to treat (her) puncture wounds. It'll take a couple of weeks," Flynt said. Flynt said officials will eventually release the female in the same area where they found her, but not the exact location. "Now, if she chooses to go back and fight with that dude, then that's her call," Flynt said.