{"id":109731,"date":"2025-12-26T18:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109731\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T18:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:25:06","slug":"lafd-rescues-woman-from-rapidly-flowing-tujunga-wash-in-arleta-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109731\/","title":{"rendered":"LAFD rescues woman from rapidly flowing Tujunga Wash in Arleta \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters hoisted a woman to safety Friday after she was stuck in a section of the rain-swollen Tujunga Wash in Arleta.<\/p>\n<p>LAFD crews responded at about 8 a.m. to the rapidly flowing wash, a 13-mile long tributary of the Los Angeles River channel, after a report of a woman in the concrete channel near Branford Street in the San Fernando Valley community. Los Angeles&#8217; system of flood control channels is full of water following two days of rain, including daily rainfall records in some communities.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was carried downstream to near Lankershim Boulevard, where the LAFD used a helicopter to hoist the woman from the water.<\/p>\n<p>The woman suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Flash flood warnings expired early Friday in Los Angeles. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/weather\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flood watches<\/a> and advisories remain in effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters hoisted a woman to safety Friday after she was stuck in a section of the rain-swollen Tujunga&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[58886,48,52,51,47,50,49,19],"class_list":["post-109731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-arleta","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}