{"id":210966,"date":"2026-03-09T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/210966\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:01:09","slug":"calf-rescued-after-fall-into-abandoned-calaveras-county-mine-shaft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/210966\/","title":{"rendered":"Calf rescued after fall into abandoned Calaveras County mine shaft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mother cow wouldn&#8217;t leave her calf after it fell down an abandoned mine shaft in the Campo Seco area this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Calaveras Consolidated Fire says the calf fell into the pit on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to the scene and found the calf about 30 feet down the shaft. Firefighters say the calf&#8217;s mother was also at the scene mooing, clearly concerned about her baby. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bac34829-8b24-4f43-a0e7-92766c015e09.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"bac34829-8b24-4f43-a0e7-92766c015e09.jpg \" height=\"827\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The calf being lifted out of the pit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Calaveras Consolidated Fire<\/p>\n<p>With the calf being uninjured, firefighters decided to lower food and water down and wait until the next day to get it out. <\/p>\n<p>Come Sunday, with the help of a back-hoe loader and a former firefighter and rancher, the calf was lifted out of the pit and to safety. <\/p>\n<p>The calf and mother cow have now been reunited.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother cow wouldn&#8217;t leave her calf after it fell down an abandoned mine shaft in the Campo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[26274,121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-210966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-calaveras-county","9":"tag-sacramento","10":"tag-sacramento-headlines","11":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210966","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=210966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}