ROSTRAVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — First responders helped save a raccoon in Rostraver Township on Monday.
Police and firefighters and public works officials all responded to a report of a trapped raccoon on Matty Drive.
Once there, they found a raccoon stuck in a storm grate, with its head poking out of the top of a hole, and its body hanging into the drain below.
Firefighters used a HURST Jaws of Life rescue tool to free the raccoon. The animal was immediately released back into its habitat.
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