{"id":230432,"date":"2026-04-01T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/230432\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:25:11","slug":"ducklings-rescued-from-storm-drain-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/230432\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducklings rescued from storm drain in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">April 1 (UPI) &#8212; Firefighters, animal services officers and public works employees teamed up in Texas to rescue a family of ducklings from a storm drain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Farmers Branch Fire Department said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/farmersbranchfire\/posts\/pfbid0SYdc3GkLvEjb1La3rTuVvi65zRxQMZy1cydptnxDQXgoovzynjHVXLohbCGt8neTl?__cft__[0]=AZb7KbwFgw_a0LRK82CxX7ieCZ-j8tXkvgOaXrEDeOaZ0owGM-GYBq1Lm5yBAlFGvq9rhgTIOGkKSO04DCeijC7Jrr33e_3iP2ZlbhQ6takQl74fydvMrVRDgPWblhoVmVA8NUEVIPvATOQqHPELqzls5Vkn_tCi_KMA3VF5PaROl0JjWe_X3RNrjsC_DBqV0Uc&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:on social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;on social media&quot;}\" class=\"link \">on social media<\/a> that firefighters worked together with local animal services officers and public works employees when the baby ducks fell into the drain on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The &#8220;team quickly lifted the grate and safely rescued all the little ones &#8212; no injuries, just a lot of happy peeping,&#8221; the post said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ducklings were reunited with their mother, who was watching the rescue from nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 1 (UPI) &#8212; Firefighters, animal services officers and public works employees teamed up in Texas to rescue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4503,89107,120,89109,702,89108,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-230432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-animal-services","9":"tag-farmers-branch-fire-department","10":"tag-firefighters","11":"tag-public-works-employees","12":"tag-social-media","13":"tag-storm-drain","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-texas-headlines","16":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}