CLOVIS, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s K-9 was killed after being hit by a car after being scared by illegal fireworks.<\/p>\n
An off-duty deputy was home Saturday night with his assigned K-9 partner, Santi.<\/p>\n
He was keeping the dog inside the house due to the disruption of illegal fireworks being set off in the area.<\/p>\n
The deputy let Santi into the backyard to go pee at around 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
During that time, an aerial mortar exploded nearby, startling Santi, causing him to run toward the fence, which he completely jumped over.<\/p>\n
The deputy immediately chased after Santi, shouting commands to come back, but the continued sound of fireworks caused Santi to keep sprinting away.<\/p>\n
The deputy ultimately found Santi badly injured on the road near Shaw and Helm Avenues in Clovis.<\/p>\n
Santi was taken to a pet hospital but died from his injuries.<\/p>\n
Police say a car hit Santi and then left the scene.<\/p>\n
K-9 Santi was a five-year-old Belgian Malinois who served with the Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office for four years.<\/p>\n
An investigation is ongoing by the Clovis Police Department.<\/p>\n
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If you have any information about this case, you can contact the Clovis Police Department at (559) 324-2800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVIS, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s K-9 was killed after being hit by a car after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-387260","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\/387260","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=387260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}