‘Help – there’s a moose loose about our hoose’

Emergency workers with the creature after the rescue operation (Central Emergency Services via AP)

Firefighters in the US state of Alaska have dealt with an unusual request for assistance from wildlife officers after a moose became stuck in a basement.

Captain Josh Thompson from Central Emergency Services on the Kenai Peninsula said the moose, estimated to be a one-year-old bull, had a mis-step while eating breakfast on Sunday morning by a home in Soldotna, about 150 miles south-west of Anchorage.