{"id":20295,"date":"2025-10-31T00:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20295\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:34:08","slug":"ducklings-in-distress-rescued-in-bensalem-see-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20295\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducklings In Distress Rescued In Bensalem: See Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 They certainly aren&#8217;t ugly ducklings.<\/p>\n<p>And after their rescue Monday night, they&#8217;ve found their way into the hearts of the firefighters who helped free them.<\/p>\n<p>The Bensalem Volunteer Fire Department&#8217;s duty crew was alerted on Monday night about a family of ducklings in distress.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews arrived to the corner of Neshaminy Boulevard and Neshaminy Valley Drive to find that five ducklings had fallen into a sewer grate.<\/p>\n<p>While four of the feathery friends were scooped up from the grate, the last duckling decided that playtime wasn&#8217;t yet over.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews said they spent an hour playing hide and seek with the last duckling before its rescue.<\/p>\n<p>All ducklings were rescued and reunited with their mama, fire officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 They certainly aren&#8217;t ugly ducklings. And after their rescue Monday night, they&#8217;ve found their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-20295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295","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=20295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}