{"id":401350,"date":"2026-07-16T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401350\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:16:08","slug":"the-pigeon-came-to-them-seeking-help-california-firefighters-give-oxygen-to-suffering-bird-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401350\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The pigeon came to them seeking help\u2019: California firefighters give oxygen to suffering bird | California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Heartwarming footage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> firefighters treating perhaps their smallest patient on record has captivated the internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A crew in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Oakland spotted a pigeon \u201cin distress\u201d earlier this week after a vehicle fire, and jumped into action to assist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThe crew reported the pigeon came up to them seeking help. The pigeon seemed to have suffered some smoke inhalation from the vehicle fire,\u201d said Oakland Firefighters Local 55 union in a post on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">As captured in footage posted online, a firefighter administered oxygen with a mask placed over the small bird\u2019s face as it stood in the road. It flew away after \u201cclearing out its lungs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firefighters administer oxygen to pigeon after smoke inhalation - loop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Firefighters_administer_oxygen_to_ailing_pigeon_-_loop--f81defb0-ed5f-4bea-82b3-845d79cab0ec-1.0.000.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" class=\"dcr-11wzo8p\"\/>Firefighters administer oxygen to pigeon after smoke inhalation &#8211; loop<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The crew\u2019s actions drew accolades online with comments such as \u201cI will gladly keep paying taxes if this is what it keeps getting used for.\u201d As of Thursday afternoon, the video had more than 1m likes on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The moving footage was reminiscent of a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/california-firefighters-revive-4-cats-rescued-from-smoke-filled-apartment-12006991\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">incident<\/a> in which firefighters in southern California rescued four cats from an apartment that had been damaged by fire. Three of the animals were not breathing, according to the Cal Fire\/Riverside county fire department, and the crew and a local sheriff\u2019s deputy used oxygen tanks and CPR to revive the animals. The cats all survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heartwarming footage of California firefighters treating perhaps their smallest patient on record has captivated the internet. A crew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-401350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401350","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=401350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}