{"id":161055,"date":"2026-02-03T00:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/161055\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:12:08","slug":"senior-cat-stuck-in-chimney-at-seal-beach-home-ocfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/161055\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Cat Stuck In Chimney At Seal Beach Home: OCFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEAL BEACH, CA \u2014 No problem too big or too small, that&#8217;s often the case with our hardworking Orange County firefighters. <\/p>\n<p>A Seal Beach family&#8217;s happy day of rescuing a senior cat took an unexpected turn over the weekend, when &#8220;Franny&#8221; decided to play a game of hide-and-seek by crawling into a hole about the size of a brick beneath the home&#8217;s fireplace. <\/p>\n<p>Orange County firefighters were called to the scene shortly after. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-image=\"25354323-1770051799\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/HAA8txqaIAAJtOl.jpeg\" data- \/>Orange County Fire Authority Courtesy Photo<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Engine 44 responded and after several careful and patient attempts, successfully rescued Franny and safely reunited her with her family,&#8221; OCFA Capt. Greg Barta told Patch. &#8220;Franny is doing well and settling back in at home, hopefully staying out of tight spaces moving forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEAL BEACH, CA \u2014 No problem too big or too small, that&#8217;s often the case with our hardworking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-161055","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161055","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=161055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}