{"id":382370,"date":"2026-07-01T18:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382370\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:07:11","slug":"oro-joins-laguna-beach-fire-department-as-peer-support-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382370\/","title":{"rendered":"Oro joins Laguna Beach fire department as peer support dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Laguna Beach Fire Department introduced Oro, its first peer support dog, during the June 23 meeting of the City Council.<\/p>\n<p>A shaggy four-legged friend, the Aussiedoodle will be part of the family at Fire Station No. 1, adjacent to City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we began this process, we were told that there was a 99% chance we\u2019d be receiving a Labrador retriever,\u201d Fire Chief Niko King said, before sharing the dog\u2019s breed. \u201cSo we\u2019re here today to talk about the 1%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"The Laguna Beach City Council joins the fire department's peer support dog, Oro, and his handler, Logan Strook, on June 23.\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1782929231_418_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>The Laguna Beach City Council joins the fire department\u2019s peer support dog, Oro, and his handler, Logan Strook, on June 23.<\/p>\n<p>(Andrew Turner)<\/p>\n<p>Oro, who weighs approximately 55 pounds, joined members of the dais for a photo with his handler, firefighter Logan Strook, who was selected via a competitive internal process. Strook and Oro have already completed a four-month training program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn his short time with the department, Oro has already participated in multiple critical incident debriefings and has quickly become a valued member of our family,\u201d King said. \u201cWe\u2019re confident that he\u2019ll have a lasting and positive impact on the health, wellness and resilience of our personnel for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oro comes to Laguna Beach via the Patriotic Service Dog Foundation, with funding provided by a sponsorship from Southern Glazer\u2019s Wine and Spirits of Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Laguna Beach Fire Department introduced Oro, its first peer support dog, during the June 23 meeting of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[320,1431,77431,1570,154526,131,133,132,16976,2324,154525,154527,45275,6523,154528,154529,25545,3945],"class_list":["post-382370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-chance","tag-family","tag-handler","tag-health","tag-laguna-beach-fire-department","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-meeting","tag-member","tag-oro","tag-peer-support-dog","tag-personnel","tag-resilience","tag-southern-glazer","tag-strook","tag-wellness","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382370","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=382370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}