NZ firies save ducklings from Xmas death

A team of Christchurch firefighters have saved a flock of eight ducklings from possible disaster in a drain on Christmas Day.

Mallard ducklings.

Christchurch firefighters have saved a flock of ducklings from a drain on Christmas Day. (AAP)

A group of New Zealand firefighters have made sure this Christmas isn't the last for a flock of ducklings.

The Christchurch firies rescued eight ducklings trapped down a drain on Christmas morning, after receiving a call from a young woman who wandered across a worried mother duck pacing around the drain.

"The young woman was pleased and the mother duck was pleased too - she waddled away with ducklings in tow," St Albans fire station officer Peter McArdle said.


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