The Holyoke Police Department and a Good Samaritan assisted with the raccoon rescue in Holyoke, Mass. Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

April 16 (UPI) --Massachusetts police and a helpful passerby came to the rescue of a raccoon spotted stuck with only its head emerging from a hole in a storm drain grate. Holyoke Police Chief ...

Photo from Holyoke Police Department via Facebook An alert bystander who noticed a raccoon with its head stuck in a storm drain grate later assisted police with its rescue using two laundry pods ...