Everybody’s heard of firefighters rescuing cats stuck in trees — but what about baby raccoons left in a parking lot?
That’s exactly what the crew at Fire Station 13 in Dartmouth faced on Sunday when they discovered a baby raccoon abandoned beside the wheels of a parked car. A second one was found the following day.
“It was cold, it was wet, and it was shivering,” said Richard Sullivan, an executive officer with Halifax Professional Firefighters Local 268. “So, the firefighters brought the baby raccoon inside, they dried it off and they warmed it up, and then they called Hope for Wildlife.”
When he arrived at Hope’s, the baby was severely dehydrated.
“It needed fluids, to be warmed up, and all that good stuff,” said Hope Swinimer, founder of Hope for Wildlife. “But it’s really doing well now, and the next day they found another one, so arrangements were made to have that one brought into us, too.”
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