{"id":401788,"date":"2026-07-17T04:15:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401788\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T04:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:15:48","slug":"viral-video-shows-firefighters-rescuing-a-distressed-pigeon-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401788\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral video shows firefighters rescuing a distressed pigeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OAKLAND, Calif. (CNN) &#8211; A feathered friend got a little help from authorities in Oakland, California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Shortly after putting out a vehicle fire on Wednesday, Oakland Firefighters Local 55 said that a pigeon in distress approached firefighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a social media post, officials said the bird appeared to have suffered smoke inhalation from the vehicle blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Firefighters provided oxygen to the pigeon, and shortly afterward the bird flew away, presumably breathing a little easier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A video of the rescue has gone viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">More than 7 million people have seen the clip from Oakland Firefighters Local 55\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DazTE7cpRz6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DazTE7cpRz6\/\">Instagram page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. (CNN) &#8211; A feathered friend got a little help from authorities in Oakland, California. Shortly after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[161077,161072,161075,143,161073,161074,145,144,161069,161076,161071,161070],"class_list":["post-401788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-firefighter-pigeon","tag-firefighter-pigeon-video","tag-firefighters-give-pigeon-oxygen","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-firefighter-pigeon-instagram","tag-oakland-firefighter-pigeon-video","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-pigeon","tag-pigeon-firefighter-video","tag-viral-pigeon-firefighter-video","tag-viral-pigeon-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401788","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=401788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}