On Saturday afternoon, the firefighters of the Ardennes organized a rather special rescue operation.
It was about recovering baby storks whose parents died from electrocution.
The nest was on the chimney of a building located in La Ferté-sur-Chiers, near Sedan.
According to our colleagues from France 3, five baby storks were still inside when their parents had died, electrocuted a few days earlier.
Four of the five babies survived
It was a local resident who alerted the emergency services for fear that the birds, which had become orphans, would starve.
Using a large ladder, the firefighters were able to climb up to the nest and retrieve the babies.
One did not survive.
The others have been entrusted to the French Office for Biodiversity.
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