CHARLIE

A FAMILY OF DUCKLINGS WAS STRANDED. HE SAVED THEM ALL.

- Derek Burnett

JORGE SERRANO AND HIS dog Charlie were strolling through a park in Cornelius, North Carolina, when they heard a commotion near the pond. It was a duck, sounding distress quacks from an overflow drain in the center of the water. Across the street, about 150 feet away, a small crowd had gathered at the drain's exit.

Five ducklings had swum too close and had been sucked in by the drain's current. You could hear their frantic peeps from the pipe's mouth. The pipe was less than 2 feet in diameter.

Serrano would never fit. But Charlie ...