Raccoon trapped in netting at Newport News Park

Heard on: Newport News Public Safety

01:27

This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

00:00

Riverview North, this is Ranger.

00:04

Hello, Riverview.

00:07

You are not. Not near me, are you?

00:10

Negative, Newport News Park.

00:14

I just had a guest here.

00:17

We're going to go try to see.

00:18

We have a raccoon trapped in some bedding.

00:21

I don't really have a lot of tools, but we're going to see if we can get it loose in case I need to hear something.

00:29

Where is he trapped at?

00:34

Um, where they put trying to grow grass around one of the retention ponds.

00:39

Apparently he's got himself in it and then come back out and can't back up and he's kind of trapped in the sunlight.

00:47

Can't get out.

00:53

Boy, you need me around?

00:57

Do you know? Don't mind, and then we're going to give it a try and see if we can get it.

01:01

And maybe, well, I don't know if it's injured.

01:04

I don't know if everything we can do with it to help it.

01:11

Is it over there by the floating berm?

01:18

It's going to be the retention pond behind the skate park.

01:26

Ten four.

9/11/2026 11:29 AM

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Newport News Park, 13560 Jefferson Ave, Newport News, VA 23603

Raccoon trapped in netting at Newport News Park

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Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, a park ranger at Newport News Park reports a raccoon trapped in bedding or netting near a retention pond behind the skate park and is attempting to free it, with possible injury concerns.

Raccoon trapped in netting at Newport News Park

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