Baby Hedgehog Sibling is Rescued from Drain by Clever Firefighters Using a Vacuum and Tube

Baby Hedgehog Sibling is Rescued from Drain by Clever Firefighters Using a Vacuum and Tube

Baby Hedgehog Sibling is Rescued from Drain by Clever Firefighters Using a Vacuum and Tube The hedgehogs and the tube that rescued them – credit SWNS Using a vacuum and some plastic tubing, rescuers Macgyvered a device to rescue two baby hedgehogs who had tumbled down a storm drain. While the vacuum didn’t work, the tube did, and can perhaps became a standard-issue rescue device for these little critters who “love enclosed spaces.” The story comes from the English county of Warwickshire, where a homeowner called the local hedgehog rescue charity after hearing cries of distress coming from a drain in her garden. Arriving, rescuers discovered a baby hedgehog had tumbled 4 feet down into the drain and was trapped in a narrow underground pipe. Firefighters were also called and tried to use a vacuum cleaner to try and suck the critter out of the drain. When that failed, the charity workers pushed an old plastic tube which had once contained a curtain into the drain. After several minutes the stra…