A duck needed help rescuing her ducklings. A police rescue ensued.
The duck, the person said, had been walking on a sidewalk atop the storm drain for about an hour, making a distress noise that sounded like crying.
Chen peered inside the drain and saw a circle of eight yellow-and-brown feathered ducklings looking confused. The babies, he believed, had slipped through the drain cover’s cracks.Chen noticed two small tunnels inside the drain and became concerned that the tiny ducklings might waddle inside the tunnels where he couldn’t reach them. He didn’t want to wait for the county’s animal control service, but he needed to remove the drain cover, which weighed about 100 pounds.
The emergency-responders opened the drain cover, and Chen ran behind a nearby CVS, where he found blue plastic containers on the ground, perfect to block the underground tunnels.With the plastic containers in hand, Chen reached down about four feet into the storm drain while a Fire and Rescue employee held onto Chen’s body from his belt. Once the containers were in place, it was time to scoop up the ducklings.
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