{"id":386576,"date":"2026-07-05T01:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/386576\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T01:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:55:11","slug":"missing-fresno-veteran-found-safe-on-the-4th-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/386576\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Fresno Veteran found safe on the 4th of July!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Rescue teams were able to locate missing 70-year-old Rondy Packard safe on Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>A volunteer Air Squadron member spotted Packard&#8217;s car in an extremely remote area approximately 20 miles northeast of Pine Flat Lake, just above Fence Meadow around 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Search teams responded there and found Packard about 500 feet from his pickup truck shortly before 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/police-seek-help-finding-missing-fresno-man-last-seen-leaving-to-fish-sunday-morning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police seek help finding missing Fresno man last seen leaving to fish Sunday morning.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was alive, alert and in good health.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the rugged terrain, the California Highway Patrol\u2019s H-40 helicopter hoisted Packard from the scene and safely transported him to awaiting medical personnel.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Rescue teams were able to locate missing 70-year-old Rondy Packard safe on Independence Day.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-386576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386576","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=386576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}