{"id":406504,"date":"2026-07-21T12:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406504\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:25:11","slug":"u-s-forest-service-employees-freed-after-hostage-ordeal-in-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406504\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Forest Service employees freed after hostage ordeal in in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are still investigating the kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption-credit\">(U.S. Forest Service | The New York Times)  In an image provided by the U.S. Forest Service, Gumboot Lake in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, where two U.S. Forest Service workers were taken hostage on Thursday, July 17, 2026. Two U.S. Forest Service employees were freed Friday after a man and his son bound the workers and held them at gunpoint for about 15 hours in a national forest in rural Northern California, the authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Add as Preferred Source<\/p>\n<p>Comment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are still investigating the kidnapping. (U.S. Forest Service | The New York Times) In an image provided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,162966,8,5131,12015,18515],"class_list":["post-406504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-national-forest","tag-california-news","tag-federal-government","tag-hostage","tag-u-s-forest-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406504","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=406504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}