Firefighter Matt Imhoff, of Saxonburg Volunteer Fire Company, holds one of the three ducklings rescued from a storm drain near Concordia Lutheran Ministries on Tuesday, May 2. Submitted photo

The feathers of a few ducklings were ruffled Tuesday night, May 2, as they fell into a storm drain, but a rescue performed by Saxonburg Volunteer Fire Company put them back in a row.

According to Christopher Dean, chief of the company, a 911 call was made for the ducklings from the parking lot of Concordia Lutheran Ministries on Marwood Road.

“Staff was walking down the road and saw them,” he said. “They said there was a (mother duck); she flew away when people started coming around.”

The ducks were saved by seven volunteers, who removed the drain cover using a winch, lifting out the birds.

“This was a pretty straightforward rescue,” Dean said. “We carried them back to the pond (on the property).”

This was the company’s second duck rescue in recent years, Dean recalled, but animal rescues are a common occurrence.

Dean said a dog was rescued from under a porch two months ago, and last year, they assisted the Pennsylvania Game Commission in retrieving a hawk stuck in a tree in Winfield Township.

“We were just happy to get them out of the storm drain,” Dean said of the ducks.