{"id":159514,"date":"2026-02-01T22:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159514\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:30:06","slug":"ocfa-rescues-senior-cat-stuck-under-family-fireplace-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159514\/","title":{"rendered":"OCFA rescues senior cat stuck under family fireplace \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sly senior feline who wedged itself into a brick-sized hole beneath a Seal Beach home\u2019s fireplace was rescued by a team of Orange County Fire Authority personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Franny, a senior cat around 9 to 11 years old, \u201cdecided to play a game of hide-and-seek\u201d shortly after being adopted by its new family, OCFA said. After the cat got into the hole, its owners were unable to help her out, so they called firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>Engine 44 responded to the scene and were able to safely get the cat out after several careful attempts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re happy to report Franny is doing well and settling back in at home, hopefully staying out of tight spaces moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>OCFA took Franny\u2019s rescue operation as opportunity to remind the public that Animal Control can be contacted during urgent matters so appropriate resources can be deployed.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc3e A Purr-fect Rescue in Seal Beach \ud83d\udc3e<\/p>\n<p>A Seal Beach family\u2019s happy day of rescuing a senior cat yesterday took an unexpected turn when \u201cFranny,\u201d estimated to be 9\u201311 years old, decided to play a game of hide-and-seek, crawling into a hole about the size of a brick beneath the &gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sRYpQhM7eG\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/sRYpQhM7eG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OCFA (@OCFireAuthority) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OCFireAuthority\/status\/2017679444694208525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 31, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sly senior feline who wedged itself into a brick-sized hole beneath a Seal Beach home\u2019s fireplace was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,611,29597],"class_list":{"0":"post-159514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news","11":"tag-orange-county","12":"tag-seal-beach"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159514","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=159514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}