{"id":266237,"date":"2026-04-13T22:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266237\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:15:17","slug":"woman-attacked-by-dog-in-long-beach-left-with-severe-injury-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266237\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman attacked by dog in Long Beach, left with severe injury \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dog bit a woman near the Los Angeles River in Long Beach on Sunday afternoon, April 12, authorities said, and was taken to a hospital with a \u201csevere extremity injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officers, at around 1:45 p.m., found the woman close to the river and Anaheim Street under attack by the dog, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBystanders heard her asking for help and initiated 911 calls,\u201d said Capt. Jack Crabtree, a Long Beach Fire Department spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Officers Tased and hit the dog with a baton to separate it from the woman.<\/p>\n<p>Police determined two dogs were involved in the attack. One was captured by Animal Care Services after it was found by a police drone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/long-beach-dog-attack-anaheim-street-la-river\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS reported. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was unclear what would happen to the one dog, and if the second one was captured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dog bit a woman near the Los Angeles River in Long Beach on Sunday afternoon, April 12,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,138,131,133,132,137,100,1492,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-266237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-long-beach","11":"tag-long-beach-headlines","12":"tag-long-beach-news","13":"tag-los-angeles-county","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-public-safety","16":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266237","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=266237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}