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Watch this tiny helpless chick get rescued from a storm drain and reunited with its mama


Outside the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in Ybor, Florida, a tiny baby chick, separated from its mother hen, and got stuck in a storm drain. That's when Lieutenant Stearns and Deputy Trainor came to the rescue. He reached down through an open grate to rescue the tiny, helpless creature. “HCSO’s mission to serve and protect recently included a baby chick stuck in a sewer drain!” the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook. 

Watch what these deputies do after this poor baby chick is trapped in a storm drain.

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Sheriff deputy rescues baby chick and reunites it with its mother hen
A small chick in Ybor City, Florida, was stuck in a storm drain when a sheriff deputy reached down to rescue it and reunite it with its mother hen.
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