A routine neighborhood storm drain became the scene of a two-hour rescue in Chandler, Arizona, after a cluster of ducklings got trapped below street level with no clear way back to their mother.
As Fox 10 Phoenix reported, thanks to one observant passerby and a determined rescuer with a creative tool, the baby birds made it back to the water and their family.
What happened?
Near Queen Creek Road in Chandler’s Layton Lakes neighborhood, a passerby noticed more than a half-dozen ducklings stranded inside a storm drain and called for help, the station said.
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Fox 10 Phoenix said the babies were alone when they were found, with no mother duck visible and no way for them to climb out. The response brought in Toma Okmen, a field operations coordinator with the Arizona Humane Society’s Animal Rescue and Cruelty Team, the station said…