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Officer helps mom get her ducks back in a row

The mother of 14 was in obvious distress. She was quacking and flapping her wings up and down Gateway Boulevard in Patchogue and apparently calling for help: Her babies were trapped in a storm drain. A passerby called the police. As a mother of two, Suffolk County Officer Eileen Emiddio could relate. Though Emiddio confessed she is not yet fluent in the troubled mother's language, the quacking vernacular...

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