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Newton firefighters rescue raccoon from top of turnpike light tower

Raccoon being rescued from the top of a light fixture on the turnpike

Ari Herzog could only watch in amazement this evening as Newton firefighters used a ladder truck, a thin lasso and a box to rescue a raccoon that had somehow survived crossing the turnpike and then climbed up the top of a light fixture sprouting from the Jersey barriers that separate the two sides of the highway.

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The video ends with him getting out of the box and into the bottom of the ladder!!

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Although once they got him off the highway, he ran away, Ari reports.

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Luke, I am your father!
That can't be! I'll never join you!

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But he'll have a great story to tell his friends!

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