told Lex18<\/a> Wednesday that she had arrived at work when she and her coworkers noticed a distressed mother raccoon searching for her missing babies.<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-08-at-11-00-04.png\")
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A nurse in Kentucky has gone viral after performing CPR on a raccoon that had passed out drunk after eating too many fermented peaches. (WYMT)<\/p>\n
\u201cOur health department is right beside of the Kentucky Mist Moonshine, which is a distillery, and they had put some fermented peaches in their dumpster, and I guess the two baby raccoons had gone into the dumpster and they were stuck,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went over there, and I was like \u2018we have to get them out.\u2019… I guess that was just like the motherly instinct in me kicked in, like I seen that Mama, and she was trying so hard to get her babies back, but she didn’t know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Using a shovel, Combs removed one of the baby raccoons, which ran back to its mother. The other, however, was unresponsive and lying in a puddle at the bottom of the dumpster.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody that was around was like, \u2018it’s dead\u2026 it’s just not going to make it.\u2019 And it was not breathing\u2026 it was full of water, like you could feel the water in it,\u201d she told Lex18.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I mean, immediately I just started doing CPR on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Combs said she was ‘afraid’ that the raccoon would try and eat her while she was providing life-saving measures (Lex 18 News)<\/p>\n
The video of the daring rescue was captured by Combs\u2019 coworkers. In the clip, she can be seen vigorously patting the animal on its back before flipping it over and beginning chest compressions. The raccoon eventually regains consciousness.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe entire time I was doing it, I was sort of afraid that it would come to and eat me up,\u201d Combs said. \u201cYou know, raccoons carry rabies. So I was afraid of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The clip has now appeared across numerous news outlets and been viewed thousands of times.<\/p>\n
After reviving the baby raccoon, Combs and her coworkers called the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, which took the animal to a local vet. The animal was deemed well enough to be released back into the wild the following day, to the same parking lot where it had been found.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was surprised it lived, and so it was amazing to see something that I helped bring back to life,\u201d Combs said.<\/p>\n
The Independent has contacted Kentucky Fish and Wildlife for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-130885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}