{"id":403286,"date":"2026-07-18T07:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403286\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:35:28","slug":"oakland-fire-crew-goes-viral-for-helping-stricken-pigeon-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403286\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland fire crew goes viral for helping stricken pigeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 An Oakland Fire Department crew is going viral for coming to the aid of a feathered friend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"An Oakland firefighter provides oxygen to a pigeon following a vehicle fire on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (Oakland Firefighters Local 55)\" width=\"458\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784360128_344_EBT-L-PIGEON-0718_01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"12984731\" \/>An Oakland firefighter provides oxygen to a pigeon following a vehicle fire on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (Oakland Firefighters Local 55)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The unusual incident happened about 6:15 a.m. Sunday after Engine 29 finished putting out a vehicle fire in the area of 75th Avenue and Snell Street in East Oakland. A pigeon appeared to have suffered some smoke inhalation and came up to the crew, possibly seeking help, Oakland Firefighters Local 55 said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DazTE7cpRz6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cE29\u2019s crew administered the pigeon some oxygen and the bird shortly flew away after clearing its lungs,\u201d read the post, which had amassed 1.2 million views as of Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The post also included video footage of a firefighter providing oxygen to the beset bird.<\/p>\n<p>Comments on the post ranged from thankful to humorous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will gladly keep paying taxes if this is what it keeps getting used for,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Another joked, \u201cSources say the insurance company is finding a way to bill the bird as we speak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fire Department spokesman Michael Hunt said Friday : \u201cThis is an example of the crew going above and beyond and thinking outside the box when it comes to preserving life and property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Staff writer Harry Harris contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 An Oakland Fire Department crew is going viral for coming to the aid of a feathered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,2113,184,7,332,161401,3802,4330,100,143,145,144,161069],"class_list":["post-403286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-animals","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-east-bay","tag-engine-29","tag-fire","tag-firefighter","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-pigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403286","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=403286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}