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Stranded sea turtle hatchlings saved after wandering down storm drain<\/p>\n

\"CaitlynFLORIDA \u2014<\/p>\n

A group of stranded sea turtle hatchlings is one step closer to making their way back to the Gulf after being rescued from a storm drain in Florida. <\/p>\n

Treasure Island Fire Rescue said<\/a> on Sept. 16, a group of sea turtle hatchlings had “become disoriented” and wandered into a nearby storm drain. <\/p>\n

Photos shared by the fire rescue showed crews pulling the hatchlings to safety. <\/p>\n

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Treasure Island Fire Rescue<\/p>\n

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Officials said the sea turtles were turned over to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, which will see that they make it home to the Gulf. <\/p>\n

The fire rescue said the incident serves as a good reminder of why it’s important for residents and businesses to keep the beach dark at night and use only sea turtle-friendly lighting. <\/p>\n

“Bright or misdirected lights can disorient hatchlings and lead them away from the water, just like what happened here,” Treasure Island Fire Rescue said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stranded sea turtle hatchlings saved after wandering down storm drain FLORIDA \u2014 A group of stranded sea turtle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[160127,558,1339,29244,3582,160124,28,30,29,160126,13959,514,102600,716,2772,3323,2171,504,160125,160128,23845,2248,160123,46663,4571],"class_list":["post-402466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-beach-dark","tag-business","tag-clearwater","tag-clearwater-marine-aquarium","tag-crew","tag-csnd","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-storm-drain","tag-group","tag-gulf","tag-nd","tag-night","tag-official","tag-photo","tag-resident","tag-safety","tag-sea-turtle-hatchling","tag-sea-turtle-friendly-lighting","tag-sea-turtles","tag-sept","tag-treasure-island-fire-rescue","tag-turtles","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}