{"id":449371,"date":"2026-09-01T00:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449371\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:26:09","slug":"san-francisco-firefighters-rescue-wild-parrot-stuck-on-third-floor-balcony-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449371\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco firefighters rescue wild parrot stuck on third-floor balcony \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Fire Department and San Francisco Animal Care &amp; Control rescued a wild parrot Sunday after the bird became trapped on a third-floor balcony of an occupied building under construction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/791755421_18585910255066027_2631712799120697063_n_58bb83.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>SFFD firefighters assisted Animal Care &amp; Control Officer Mullen on Sunday&#8217;s call, according to the fire department. Firefighters accessed the roof and lowered a ladder down to the balcony. <\/p>\n<p>Once on the balcony, rescuers carefully slid the green parrot upward to free its head, which was stuck between two pieces of glass.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers wrapped the bird in a towel and handed it to Officer Mullen for a physical examination.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/791906474_18585910246066027_7820284954268178854_n_396599.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thankfully they were fine: their wings, legs and neck were all ok, so Officer Mullen released the bird,&#8221; SFFD reported in a social media update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco Fire Department and San Francisco Animal Care &amp; Control rescued a wild parrot Sunday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-449371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449371","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=449371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}