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Ducklings Rescued from Drain by Upper Gwynedd PD, Public Works

The nine ducklings were trapped in a storm drain at North Penn Marketplace in Upper Gwynedd Monday morning.

If the mother duck could talk, she'd quack "Thank you."

As she looked on, guarded, crews from Upper Gwynedd Public Works and officers from Upper Gwynedd Township Police rescued nine ducklings that were crying for help from a storm drain Monday morning.

According to police, the storm drain was within the North Penn Marketplace shopping center at Valley Forge Road and Sumneytown Pike.

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Upper Gwynedd Township Public Works responded with a front-end loader, a bucket and a piece of wood. The wood was used to cover the drain pipe so the ducklings would not venture further into the drain pipe, police said.

Public Works employees John Maguire and Howard "Peanut" Quinn lifted off the grate cover, blocked the pipe and jumped inside the drain.

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There, the ducklings were gently ushered into the bucket and lifted out of the drain, police said.

The nine rescued ducklings were then reunited with their appreciative mother.

With a couple quacks, the mother led her kin across Sumneytown Pike to the creek next to North Penn Soft Cloth car wash.

Their protector as they crossed the busy roadway: Upper Gwynedd Officer Fred Lynch, who stopped traffic for the ducks.

It seems for Upper Gwynedd Police, "Community First" extends to our fluffy neighbors too.


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