Overview
- Firefighters in Dresden’s Johannstadt neighborhood freed four ducklings from a rainwater downpipe after quacking from the pipe drew a response to Elsasser Straße.
- A rescue from above was not possible, so a security service opened a parking garage to reach the line and crews opened the pipe without causing damage.
- All four ducklings were unhurt, reunited with their mother, placed in a transport crate, and released at the Elbe along the Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer.
- The same department later retrieved a separate bird from a street gully on Bärwalder Straße and returned it to the wild.
- In a separate Berlin case, police and the water utility used a camera to locate nine ducklings in a street drain in Mariendorf before recovering them, showing how urban drainage can trap young birds in spring.