SLIDELL, La. (AP) - A duck call ringtone helped a southeast Louisiana firefighter rescue six ducklings from a storm drain.
Spokesman Chad Duffaut of the St. Tammany Fire District #1 says even with the realistic quacking from his cellphone, it took Firefighter Cody Knecht about 90 minutes to catch the first four baby mallards and hand them up to three other firefighters in Slidell.
Duffaut says Knecht rescued the others after giving them an hour to calm down.
All six were reunited with their mother Saturday in the canal behind the home where residents had called to say they’d seen the ducklings go into the drain.
Duffaut says it was fire station’s second duck rescue in a week.
On April 19, firefighters rescued a duck that got stuck in a chimney.
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Online: www.slidellfire.org
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