Animals have value to their owners as an investment, agricultural or other income, or significant sentimental value. With the explosion of social and other media, response to these incidents commonly feature local media, national coverage, and even international exposure. If the response goes well - you get great coverage. If the response goes wrong - you will get even MORE coverage but it may not be appreciated by your Chief. Responders may put themselves at risk trying to rescue an animal if they are not aware of the hazards associated with this specialized form of heavy rescue - thus specialized methods, equipment, and training has been developed. Techniques, tactics, equipment and protocols have rapidly evolved to increase responder safety, as well as animal victim(s). This session discusses aspects of incident command and management that are relevant to performing a good risk assessment before attempting animal rescue in the fire service. I will review the NFPA 1670/2500 addition of Technical Animal Rescue to the Standards and discuss NFPA 150 - Animal Housing applicability to your jurisdiction. Additionally, I will use examples from real incidents where volunteer fire departments effected a rescue to illustrate special hazards, challenges and successes of this area of specialty heavy rescue. There are several simple approaches to these types of scenes that make them more efficient, including understanding animal behavior and responder responsibilities, and general safety rules. In particular - incident command and management potential solutions on various large animal rescue scenes will be illustrated in this presentation. SUGGESTED KEYWORDS: Technical Large Animal Rescue, Emergency Animal Rescue, TLAER, Technical Animal Rescue, NFPA 1670/2500/150 Standards, Special Heavy Rescue