Strathmore firefighters came to the rescue of several little ducklings.
The Strathmore Fire Department responded to a call about ducklings stuck in storm drain on Sunday (June 1) at 11:00 a.m.
"A mother duck had walked over a storm drain and the ducklings had fallen in," explained firefighter Alaine Sharpe. "We pulled up the grate covering it, and one of the firefighters went in and handed them up and out of the storm drain."
The four-man crew was able to reunite nine ducklings with the mother.
The crew also pulled up a manhole cover to retrieve two more ducklings that had escaped through the pipes. However, the mother duck had left the area by the time the two were rescued.
The department took the ducklings in and named them Lilac and Dumpling before giving them to the Animal Care Centre.
"It's out of the ordinary. I've never done one like this before," Sharpe said about the rescue.
The two birds are now in the care of the Bird Rescue Society.