{"id":708654,"date":"2026-07-24T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708654\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:35:08","slug":"firefighters-rescue-baby-otters-from-storm-drain-in-nottinghamshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708654\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters rescue baby otters from storm drain in Nottinghamshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firefighters rescued three &#8220;very cold and extremely hungry&#8221; baby otters from a storm drain in Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service was called to Lantern Lane, near East Leake, at 21:34 BST on Wednesday after a person reported hearing noises coming from a drain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The service said firefighters safely removed the otters before they were taken to Linjoy Wildlife Sanctuary in Etwall, Derbyshire, by a member of the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday, Lindsay Newell, from Linjoy Wildlife Sanctuary, said the otters would be transported to Stapeley Grange &#8211; an RSPCA-run wildlife centre in Cheshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters rescued three &#8220;very cold and extremely hungry&#8221; baby otters from a storm drain in Nottinghamshire. Nottinghamshire Fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-708654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}