Lightning may not strike in the same place twice, but in Minnesota, it turns out one off-duty zoo worker can happen upon and rescue two different wounded owls on the same day.

A northern Minnesota woman is being praised for rescuing not one, but two owls in the same day and in two different locations.

One of the two owls rescued by a Minnesota woman in a story that went viral this week has died, but the other is still getting medical care.

I definitely thought that I had had my fix of owls with the first one,” said Whelan, 22, a Lake Superior Zoo guest experience manager who graduated earlier this year with a biology and environmental science degree.