By The Associated Press Ketchikan Daily News AP

3:35 p.m. AKST, March 2, 2013
KETCHIKAN, Alaska—

What began as an oven repair call ended as a bald eagle rescue mission for Nathan Brooks on Wednesday.
   
The Ketchikan Daily News reports that Brooks and customer, Roberta Shields, felt compelled to help a bald eagle that was standing on the house's driveway. Shield says she was apprehensive at handling a bird protected by law, but she felt that it would not survive neighborhood cats and dogs.
   
Brooks says though it was obviously wounded, the bird still was able to walk. At one point, the eagle ran in between Shields' legs to escape. Finally, Brooks draped a dropcloth over the raptor and scooped it up in his arms.
   
The female eagle was sent to the Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka. Caretakers there said the eagle had suffered an injury to its head.