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TIL Louisiana firefighter Chad Duffaut rescued 6 ducklings from a storm drain with the help of his cellphone’s duck call ringtone. This was the fire station’s second duck rescue in a week - previously, firefighters rescued a duck that got stuck in a chimney.

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