San Mateo rescuers get their ducks in a row after storm drain swallows feathered family

It was a draining day for 12 ducklings who fell into a storm sewer in San Mateo last week, but Humane Society and San Mateo Consolidated Fire Department workers rescued them and reunited them with their mother.

When a resident saw the distraught mother duck pacing near a storm drain on Saratoga Drive and heard the cries of the ducklings trapped under the steel grate the afternoon of June 14, she called the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA.