John Ruel was walking his dog in Oldsmar, Florida, on March 20 when he saw an alligator stuck in a sewer. He then filmed as a local animal trapper pulled the gator out.

The trapper, from the State of Florida Wildlife, taped up the gator’s mouth as it was sticking out of the mouth of the sewer, and eventually freed the animal by pulling it backwards up through a manhole. Credit: John Ruel via Storyful