Crime & Safety
Long Beach Firemen Make Adorable Rescue
Cute alert. LBFD brought baby herons home after their nest fell from a tree.
Long Beach firefighters made an unusual and adorable rescue of two baby birds Tuesday morning, wrote the department on Facebook.
At 8:36 a.m., firefighters received a special request call to assist Long Beach Police and animal control at the 300 block of East Market Street. A bird's nest had reportedly fallen from a tree containing two baby herons.
A member of Tower Ladder 2372 was carefully raised into the tree where he placed the nest and its occupants back in their home.
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