{"id":199133,"date":"2026-03-01T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T09:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199133\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T09:01:07","slug":"milpitas-first-responders-rescue-family-trapped-by-apartment-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199133\/","title":{"rendered":"Milpitas first responders rescue family trapped by apartment fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Milpitas Police Department (MPD) and Milpitas Fire Department (MFD) made national news this week for a heroic rescue carried out last weekend\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, around 3:15pm, a local resident called 911 from her apartment on South Park Victoria Drive, frantically explaining that she and her family were trapped by a fire and didn\u2019t know where it was coming from.<\/p>\n<p>Milpitas cops rolled up a little over 90 seconds later to find the woman, her male partner, their 3-year-old toddler, and their dog packed onto a second-story balcony while all around them the building was engulfed by flames.<\/p>\n<p>Emotional <a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/Fy-Bb4Vwnm\/?mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;fs=e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> captured by MPD shows an officer looking up and saying, \u201cWhere\u2019s the baby? Throw her! Throw her!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A long moment passes. You can then see the baby landing in the officer\u2019s arms. \u201cI got her, I got her!\u201d the officer exclaims.<\/p>\n<p>Next comes the dog, whose landing is slightly less smooth, connecting haphazardly with the officer\u2019s awaiting hands, but still safe nonetheless.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MFD personnel used a ladder to help get the adults down before the fire was eventually put out. Nobody was reported to be injured in the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milpitas Police Department (MPD) and Milpitas Fire Department (MFD) made national news this week for a heroic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-199133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199133","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=199133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}