{"id":186451,"date":"2026-05-07T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186451\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:05:09","slug":"officers-rescue-baby-raccoons-from-chimney-of-pennsylvania-home-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186451\/","title":{"rendered":"Officers rescue baby raccoons from chimney of Pennsylvania home \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, rescued several baby raccoons this week after the curious critters became trapped inside a residential chimney. <\/p>\n<p>Lansdale Borough Police Department shared that the night of May, 6, 2026,  Sgt. Erbele, officers Ruel and Harney\u00a0were called to a home after three raccoon kits became trapped inside a chimney. <\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived at the house, they worked carefully to safely remove the young animals without causing any injury.<\/p>\n<p>Police reported that their quick response and teamwork allowed for the successful rescue of all three raccoons from the structure.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LPD-officers-Rescue-Raccoon-.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tLansdale Borough Police DepartmentLansdale Borough Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Following the rescue, police said the raccoons were taken to the Aark Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center for care. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just another day of protecting all members of our community great and small,&#8221; police wrote.  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, rescued several baby raccoons this week after the curious critters became trapped inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4615,200,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-186451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-critter-corner","tag-montgomery-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}