{"id":710073,"date":"2026-06-17T20:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710073\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:06:17","slug":"tree-mendous-rescue-saves-three-stranded-baby-raccoons-in-buxton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710073\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree-mendous rescue saves three stranded baby raccoons in Buxton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUXTON, Maine (WGME) &#8212; Three baby raccoons found themselves in a bit of a predicament on Tuesday when they became stranded inside a tree in Buxton, prompting a rescue effort.<\/p>\n<p>The Buxton animal control officer and Captain Morrison of Buxton Fire &amp; Rescue teamed up with staff from the Saco River Wildlife Center to help safely recover the young raccoons.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Three baby raccoons found themselves in a bit of a predicament on Tuesday when they became stranded inside a tree in Buxton, prompting a rescue effort. (Buxton Fire &amp; Rescue)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7dcea1d2-5321-4117-a0e6-4baa38280abf-722469594_1046123461701409_1473984858171573678_n.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Three baby raccoons found themselves in a bit of a predicament on Tuesday when they became stranded inside a tree in Buxton, prompting a rescue effort. (Buxton Fire &amp; Rescue)<\/p>\n<p>After the rescue, the baby raccoons were placed in the care of wildlife rehabilitation professionals at the Saco River Wildlife Center.<\/p>\n<p>There, they will receive the care and support before hopefully being returned to the wild.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (3)<\/p>\n<p>The Saco River Wildlife Center says the mom was gone and the baby raccoons were orphans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUXTON, Maine (WGME) &#8212; Three baby raccoons found themselves in a bit of a predicament on Tuesday when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-710073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}